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African Gold Dust / Diamonds Scam

African Gold dust scam and African rough diamonds scam has duped hundreds of people world-wide, not only do ignorant poor people get ripped off their savings of seeing a profitable deal , but also many businessmen have turned bankrupt and lost their wealth, the fact I am still unable to understand, why do people fall into such scams. The Scammers are basically from the west african nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameron, Mali and Burkina Fasso to list a few. The scammers always use telephone numbers/ mobile numbers which are not traceable. Victims usually come across such scammers through unsolicited emails and text sms. The scammers declare that they are in possession of Gold dust/ Gold dory bars / rough diamonds / or other precious metals / stones that will be sold at almost 50% to 70% lesser than the market price and that way the buyer has an opportunity to sell it with good profits. The Scammers do provide all the certifications , licences, insurances papers, Kimberley Process Certificates, invoices to the sellers which is all fake but nothing more than a Photoshop creation of these certifications. The seller will always throughout the communications with their victims use various telephone numbers. The scammers will also do phone calls to the sellers as they use illegal telephone lines, his somehow convinces the buyer that the seller in Africa is a real person. The seller will ask for maximum information from the buyer, like bank account numbers, address, telephone numbers, passport copies etc. However, the seller will never provide the buyer with such information and even if provided it will be a fake. There is always an initial amount that the buyer will have to pay for some registration, tax, paperwork etc., which could be from $200 to maximum any amount. This money will never be returned to the buyer and eventually the buyer will never see the Gold or rough diamonds. On many occasions the seller will invite the buyer to Guinea, Ghana, Mali or any other African country to conclude the deal. I have known of many such incidents when the buyer has travelled to Africa and found himself being kidnapped by these scammers. The next step from these scammers will be to hold the victim hostage and ask for ransom from hostage’s family members. Few victims do end up getting back to their home country, but few are left dead. Never travel to Africa to conclude such deals from unknown / invisible scammers/ exporters.Never send money to these scammers, especially they will ask through Western Union or any other money transfer office.Never declare your personal details , bank account , passport copies to these scammers.Always verify each document / telephone numbers if you are getting tempted to do any such business deals with the scammers ( Or you may ask us ).Victims never think from where these exporters got the Gold / Rough diamonds in the first place and why aren’t they selling in the real market. Are not such industries controlled by the respective governments with proper laws & regulations. Why did the scammer contact the victim and how on earth the scammer thought that the victim will buy the merchandise.The Gold & Diamond industries in west Africa remain handicapped due to unstable Governments. The traditional mining does have two channels in west Africa, through legal methods of trade and the illegal method of trade. Its better that the buyers study in depth about this and don’t get involved in the illegal method of trade or get duped by the scammers. Export & trading of gold especially in Guinea is free and does not have any restrictions. No approval , no licence is required to sell, buy, export or hold gold and diamonds in Guinea. The best way is to follow the Central Bank of Guinea’s procedures to do such trade. In west Africa fraud cannot be controlled in mining and precious metals/stones trading. Therefore, the victims must not pursue their lost money and even Interpol cannot do much in this situation. Sierra Leone – Sierra Leone’s customs authorities enforce strict regulations concerning the export of gems and precious minerals, such as diamonds and gold. All mineral resources, including gold and diamonds, belong to the State and only the government of Sierra Leone can issue mining and export licenses. The legal authority for the issuance of licenses is vested in the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources. Failure to comply with relevant legislation can lead to serious criminal penalties. For further information on mining activities in Sierra Leone, contact the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources: The Director of Mines, Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources, Fifth Floor, Youyi Building, Brookfields, Freetown, Sierra Leone; tel. (232-22) 240-420 or 240-176; fax (232-22) 240-574 Ghana – Gold Operations in Ghana are in two Sectors –The big mining companies; and the small-scale sector. PMMC is responsible for the small-scale, which is comprised of individuals, small and medium size mining companies. –Generally, any mining operation with concession up to 25 acres is considered a small-scale mine. PMMC purchases glod from small-scale miners and in turn export abroad. PMMC already has an existing contract to sell its gold to an overseas gold refinery, however applicants with favourable terms may be considered. –Overseas Buyers seeking to purchase gold from Ghana may contact other licensed gold buyers. However, any offers received from suppliers are to be confirmed with PMMC for advice on genuineness of transaction. –Overseas Buyers of gold are strictly advised NOT to pay cash directly to any local suppliers of gold Bank of Ghana regulations require that payment for gold suppliers are made by Bank-to-Bank transfer via Bank of Ghana (i.e. The Central Bank of Ghana). EXPORT PROCEDURES 1. The gold to be exported shall be delivered by the licensed Gold Buyer to PMMC premises by 9.00 a.m for assaying on the day of export, if already smelted. Otherwise the unsmelting gold a day before the dayh of export. 2. PMMC shall issue Assay Invoice which will indicate the weight and the purity of gold to be exported. 3. The gold to be exported shall be sealed and secured in metal/wooden specie boxes on the day of export by PMMC in the presence of the following group of officers. –Ghana Customs Officers –PMMC Officials –The Licensed Gold Buyer who has requested for the gold export. 4. PMMC will complete the Bank of Ghana and Ghana Custom export documents on behalf of the Local Seller/Gold Buyer. 5. The Licensed Gold Buyer will be required to supply the full address and the telephone number of the overseas destination for the export. 6. PMMC will be responsible to transport the gold to Kotoka International Airport, Accra for delivery to the airline (currently KLM). 7. The Licensed Gold Buyer and the Overseas Buyer shall be responsible for the Insurance and Airfreight charges of the gold to be exported. 8. The gold to be exported will be accompanied by the following documents:- PMMC Assay invoice which will indicate: • Purity (i.e. Gold content). • Quantity in ounces and kgs. • Value in both US Dollars and Local Currency. The value of the gold will be based on the spot price of the London Metal Exchange (LME) on the day of export. • Bank of Ghana and the Ghana Customs export documents. • Airway Bill. 9. Funds in US Dollars representing the export value of the gold should be transferred to PMMC account at the Bank of Ghana (i.e. The Central Bank of Ghana), with The Licensed Gold Buyer noted therein as the beneficiary, prior to the export of the gold. PMMC will provide the Bank transfer instructions to the exporter for the information of the overseas buyer to facilitate the transfer of fund. 10. PMMC fees for the export of gold are :- –Shipment charges : – 0.50% of the export value of the gold –Assay charges : – $50.00 per bar of 5kgs –Smelting charges : – $20 per kg. Of gold –These fees are payable on the day of export of the goldI request readers who intend to do business with such entities should be careful and if any further information is required on this trade please comment here with your email address and we shall be happy to assist you.Thanks

Please note :

This is not a B2B blog or a platform. We do not research for sourcing out of suppliers and neither do we recommend any suppliers to anyone.
The information for doing business in Tanzania , Ghana or any other country can be found with your respective government departments in your country , Chamber of Commerce or the designated government departments / Embassies of the country you want to do business.
This blog and some of our contributors here are only preventing fraud or warning people around the world against the gold and diamond business frauds and scams

**Please note Anil Machado’s blog or Anil Machado does not sell gold,diamonds or any other commodity. Incase if you received any private message or email claiming to be Anil Machado then beware its some scammer trying to use a different method to cheat you.

Dear Mr. Suresh,
I would like to know how did you arrive to get contact with Wassa Co-operative. Indeed the small scale miners are controlled by PMCC but , the entire transaction will be communicated to you by PMCC office and not Wassa. However, the price as of today per kilo is $44000 and I am sure they are offering you huge discount. If you are going to do do any advance money transfer then it will be your risk as these transactions are only done through Central Bank of Ghana and not by any other bank.
Do you have any documents from them on the authenticity of Gold?
Do you have their real office address? As the address on their website is fake.
Do not give any personal details, bank details to them.

Please feel free to ask any questions you need and incase if you need really to buy Gold dust then we can refer you to real miners.

can you please tell me where you are with these SOKASAM people?
Have you already checked if they are registered with PMMC?
I have a contract from them, where they say their address is 102 Tema Road in Accra and tel. numbers. None of which corresponds to the information in their website. There are names in the contract that read: Prince Kenedy Ama, Samuel Ackah and Coker Brima.

This is an interesting discussion. I’ve now been working with several people whom claim to be able to offer various amounts of bullion or dust at a great discount. They say they have all kinds of documentation and Export licences etc. but all ends being fake. I am trying to setup a brokerage as have buyers but i am failing to establish a good network of sellers. Are you able to assist?

We have been trying to locate a reliable seller of gold dust/dory bars in Sierra Leone, Mali, Guinea and Burkino Faso for one year but uptill now we only have met with scammers providing us with fake documents and asking tax payment in advance before the goods can be released for shipment.

We would highly appreciate with your guidance to locate genuine suppliers of gold dust/dory bars in the aforementioned countries.

I read with dismay the inclusion of Wassa Co-operative Miners
and Sokasam Investment Limited in your forum.I have bought gold from Wassa Co-operative Miners and they use Sokasam Investment Limited as their registered name,they are a team of small scale miners in Wassa and Ahafo and they are real.

People use their name to engage in anti-social activity, this website is trying to use their name to fake people,the site ishttp://www.sokasaminvestment.com, they want people to believe they are the real Sokasam Investment Limited but they are not so people should stop dealing with them. The real site is http://www.sokasam.bravehost.com or wassagroup.bravehost.com and they use Liberty Mining.

The only real Wayne Seers of Illinois has never purchased gold and has never made any attempt to purchase gold!

I truly believe my name was used by either a scam artist attempting to steer potential scam victims to them or it was posted by some one that had other reasons to try to connect my good name to African scams.

I am professional investigator against economic crime, working for several companies as Anti-fraud expert and be specialized in African AU and rough diamonds scam . I can provide standard letters with fraud-protected procedures to so called “seller” which makes it motsly impossible to beg anyone as well as standard answers for their offers.

Yes there is a demand for your proper procedures paperwork, it will help in not defrauding the 3 private buyers I work with. My buyers have accounts in the US, Europe, and UAE, all have multiple bank accounts to be flexible with the seller. But all the sellers we’ve vetted so far during the last 10 months want a financial instrument upfront or the buyer to travel to the mine location etc. Of course there will be no traveling or submission of a financial document. Could you please help in finding a real seller at your earliest convenience.

I have a 30 year relationship with dealers in Ghana and have referred many people to them, proven happy buyers. You will NOT be buying MTs, but you will have access to gold via PMMC, bank to bank as well as vetted American proxies to over see transactions in Accra.

I want to know the proceedures in Guinea to export gold dust. What are the fees, who are the fees paid to and how much are the fees?
Also, I am looking for a good supplier.
Send answer to davelaca@hotmail.com
Thank you,
Dave

Dear David, I will start to publish my aid-docs tommorow. I am in the middle of process to collect them in strategic directions, because I do not need to educate fraudsters which may are here also.
I will write you seperately
All the best,

Hello Anil and most other people who have given some excellent thoughts on the gold buying side.I have 1 question for you all and possible 1 bit of info for you.
1. Do you know anyone who is willing to bring gold(bar form or dore) to Dubai? any amount small or big, my buyer will take all, he will pay import taxes and assay, but not export taxes docs etc from the sellers country.
2 If anyone of you ever decides to try their luck with shares, especially a company that calls itself FIRST PRIME GROUP Forget it it! they are the biggest boiler room scammers ever! they have robbed many people and still keep doing so. Beware of them and also look them up on the net.
Thank you Nick

@Tina
Do you have any idea how much scammers and simple “believing tools ( http://www.-selected so called “mandates”) are going on your trial? – and later on must reimburse the victims?
Who shall pay you? as the mandate? – the Buyer? That´s no mandate
FOR GOOD REASONS, THIS BLOG IS NO!! B-B PLATFORM!
FOR SAME REASONS, CON-ARTIST ARE TRYING TO GET A FEED IN.
Anil, How much requests r.o. are already rejected since establishing this blog?.
We prevent against fraud. That´s it! What´s so heavy to understand? Maybe you try some other like e.g. Alibaba…..
Anil, I will appreciate if you delete Tina´s comment.
Anybody who maybe needs to contact Tina or anybody else who believes – or suggest – to be able to provide access to AU, shall ask the admin for our “status form” to get this filled from Tina and the preventive package, which furnish applicants with all necessary steps to avoid losses.
Tina, I will excuse me immediately, after you furnished the admin with evidence about your offer.
Means:
mandate letter from the seller, verifiable copies of previous assay reports, licenses and Certificate of ownership from high court about reasonable quantities.
If you are authorized, you shall have this and if not, for your own protection, you shall stop here and only proceed after reciept and Due Dilligance about.

Dear Henning,
I would certainly need your help and advice, l have an offer from a seller in Ghana and it looks so real, we are doing the testing at PMMC, which is a government authority in Ghana. Please send advice to frankdaves@ymail.com

Hi Frank. I have written to your personal mail already.
We have done some 200 due dilligences, about 120 of them in Ghana.
Tell you what: They are all bogus and scammers.
Some will wait till you are there and then ask for upfront money.
If they invite you to come there –> Bogus
If they ask for taxes etc.to be be paid —> Bogus
If the Chief is sick and delivery delayed –> Bogus
If his father is a Chief —> Bogus
If his name is Prince something –> Bogus
Has no landline tel.. –> Bogus
His fax machine code is in a different city –> Bogus
Has no corporate email –> Bogus
If the stuff comes with diplomatic courier –> Bogus
If they show you pictures of chest full of gold –> it is brass!

I am currently negotiating new deals with a group from the UK that provides sellers with acceptable terms. That means:
NO UPFRONT MONEY, POF as an bk-bk MT799 simply stating that we are capable of handling the deal. Some sellers come back and request a “blocked fund MT799”. We refuse to do this AND SO SHOULD EVERYBODY ELSE! MT799 blocked funds is actually more of MT760 and makes it a tradeable security instrument. Recipients WILL try to get a loan against it and put the money in a private investment program (PIP) If the PIP goes sour you are liable to loose the money!!

A clean MT799 will give the seller all he is asking for and what he legitimately needs: The security that I can pay the goods. Anything else is kust to risky with these folks. Especially if you see that the beneficiary and the seller have different names and bank accounts.

Does anybody know anything about this company ”West Africa Gold and Diamond Trust” located in sierra Leone and Conakry, Guinea.I’m about buying gold from them,are they genuine or scam?how reliable are they? what are the procedures for exporting gold from guinea to Benin Republic and Nigeria?

I don´t know if the ” West Africa Gold and Diamond Trust ” located in sierra Leone is fraud or real, i am talking to them right now through skype. They are offering me 2 kilos of gold as a sample for 150 dollars to them to pay the shipping. What should i do? Does anyone else have experience with them?

Dont pay them upfront, they are fake . Let me know what documents they have provided you and we shall get back to you if those are real documents or fake and also what is the mode of payment , shipment and cost of gold per kilo they are offering. How did this company get in touch with you, How do you know these people???? please send me details

What we are talking about? Count yourself! If he owns 2 kg what is the value? why he should need 150 USD?
Ask him to sell 100 gram on local market and feed the rest by himself to you.
I am sure you can offer to reimburse the tickets but you will never meet him.

i got scamed by a companny similar to that cant remember name but they showed me the gold they even melted in in front of me i verified it that it was gold bt they switched the box on me as they said box need to be govement sealed and could not be opened till i was in my own country they very smart on how they do things does anyone know about a comany in guinea that claims it has 30 thousand carats of rough diamonds or is this another scam all answer welcome apprently then it gets shipped to dubai
thank alan

Hi David, I totally agree with your comments. I have done some 200 due diligences and so far I have not found one real seller. I would very much appreciate if you could guide me to someone that you have successfully dealt with.
Highly appreciated.

HI, Is it possible get gold out of ghana by a seller offering it at a discount, shipped to my refinery of choice in USA. They say they will ship CIF, pay taxes for export and provide all docs. They say however that they need to avoid the PMMC and usually deal with AA Minerals. I just need to put out a Letter of Credit and sign a contract. They will wait for payment until final assay in the USA. Trouble is that the US State Dept says discounting is illegal and all gold must go through PMMC priced at LME. For this to work for me, I must be able to get a discount. What is the real story on this. What are the actual regulations?

first of all LME do not quote Gold. LBMA will do this.
Also in Ghana to trade with instruments is very difficult. Most banks do not work with and if it´s danger, because if you start with LC, take care that it is non-transferrable, conditioned and no other than the seller as contractual party is recipient. It´s old scam fashion to address to so called “financier” with seller as further credit or benefiaciary. They will get a credit line on it and you´ll never see them, your AU or your funds again as well as they count for 100% substance calling “AU dust” and 30% content. That´s why they offer a huge discount.
The major question is for what reason you need to get the gold? To generate profit through the sale in US? or do you need the physical product?
In any case. you have to do this from Ghana self.
PMMC sells to world market, your Govt. is right, but experienced buyers purchase FOB and export their own Gold. in this case prices are not required. If you only need to cash a profit through the spread, you can sell it inside Ghana to PMMC for 2-3% below LBMA as well as to Buying agents which issues a cash cheque after their analysis. Both only in GH Cedis.
If your supplier is serious, please go back to aprevious comment for a sure procedure with instruments to avoid scam. Seller first and commodity first MUST be your standard anyway. I just left Ghana two days ago and you can believe me, everybody in the real Au business KNOWS EXACTLY THE MARKET PRICE and without an advantage through JV, they will not offer fancy discounts
Hope this helps you a bit,

I am wondering to see always new inquiries for contact details of “real sellers”. Do somebody really believe, that a Buyer will provide his seller to a competitor in a “demand” market? The only way to receive AU in real is leaving the living room and enter into the bush with competitive offers as for example Joint Venture or purchase wihout discount from official sources.
What´s so heavy to understand on this fact?

Warrior i am writing an article on Gold scam and i want to use some of your contain you stated here and i want to ask am i permitted to use your contain because my article will be publish in a magazine.

Hi Henning, thanks for this article…
It nevertheless is amazing that anybody could actually fall for these documents. It is so obvious that they are a fake. Hard to believe ..

Anyway, I am a bit disappointed at most of the authors in this site. Since most people here do not want to contribute to the battle against the fraudsters, rather they are trying to make use if the work other people did. Simply asking for: Can anybody give me the name of a real seller? That is cheap!

The only way to battle these “mushrooming” fraudsters is to have a website that lists all of those names and companies that have turned out to be bogus. That would be a real help for all buyers AND real sellers as well.

I have negotiated for week with a company called KERZERMITH J&J for 500 kilos whilst they later even claimed to be even having 1800 kg in a security house called EQUITY SECURITY CO.LTD. Can you believe a warehouse in Accra with goods worth almost 600 Mil euros.. you’d need the whole army to protect such a warehouse. Well, luckily, you only a POBox and a handy number since their slogan is: “Your security is our proud”. Can I see the goods? Well no, for “security reasons” .. . .
The show is run by a guy called Joseph Danquah, along with names like Bernard Ackah and Isaac Addo.
I was rather sure that they are real until they presented this “SKR” which was nothing but a laugh. Stay away from this company! The fraudsters have now simply gone on to a new company call Awaasah Tigerfalls Co, Ltd.

The NEW GAME IN TOWN now is to ask for a copy of a tear sheet or a copy of a bank draft as POF since nobody who has his head in the right place will ever give a BG, SBLC, LOC, MT799 or the notorious MT103/23 to them anymore — for very good reason.
DO NOT GIVE BANK DRAFT COPIES! They will use this copy to find some poor sucker whom this bank draft will be offered for sale at a (huge) discount. As proof they will use your bank draft copy. The poor sucker will then be asked to make a downpayment and obviously will never receive the original check.

German and Swiss refineries have signed an accord not to accept any African Gold anymore, most airlines (except i guess KLM) have stopped to transport gold since they have been sued by African for being the ones who have exchanged the goods against sand or brass dust. The same thing with security transport companies. Ask BRINKS, they laugh at you when you tell to pick up goods in Ghana, Mali, Benin or Sierra Leone. The European Monetary fund has issued a warning to all European Banks to immediately stop issuing any bank instruments to any seller or “financier” in West Africa.

What these guys do not understand: They destroy their countries since there is a need for the small scale miners to export their goods. The fraudsters are destroying these markets and only big business who are in bed with the corrupt elites of these countries will succeed leaving the rest of the people poor and with no alternatives.

As you can see, I am giving information and I would appreciate something in return from you guys, if possible. Just don’t ask me for a good seller. If I had one, I’d buy all the gold he has from him. So far, there is not ONE and there actually may be NONE.

One more question to all of you:
Why would anybody ask you to pay for the 6,5% -7,5% export cost if he really has -let’s say- 50 kilos??
All he needs to do is sell 5 kilos to the PMMC at LBMA-5% and he has all the money he need to export the goods.
And the answer is: HE HAS NO GOLD TO SELL!
All he wants is your bank instrument to go into trade or cash it.

ONE MORE THING: I get hundreds of offers to come to Amsterdam, Brussels or Vienna and get 50-100 kg which a “diplomatic envoy” has brought to town. All they want you to do, is to pay the security storage company to release the goods to you…. a few thousand Euros or so. You can even take a sample and have it tested at a local jewelry store (while they switch the stuff for brass or sand).
DO NOT FALL FOR THIS! YOU WILL END UP WITH NOTHING and you can be charged as an accessory to a crime, since this gold has been smuggled into the country. They are always one step ahead, no matter how smart you think you are.
KEEP TELLING THEM: No upfront payment for nothing! Have them bring the gold to the refinery of your trust and then pay them immediately after melting. That’s the way to do it.

Dear Lothar,
We get hundreds response on this blog from people who claim to be real sellers of Gold from Africa but we scrutinize them and dont approve their comments. Subsequently, we also get so many response everyday from people asking for real sellers, apparently we try and disapprove their comments too, as we don not want this website to be a channel for scammers to find new ways of connecting with people and trying to cheat them. However, the names of scammers and companies keep on changing everytime and the same names and contact details are never used by scammers for two different buyers. Therefore, its difficult to track them or have a list, as that will not help, but only help is having a set of do’s and dont prescribed here for individuals/ companies to beware of such con artists. I know when we publish some do’s & dont’s its also educating the scammers at the same time, but we can only hope that the people who want to do any business in buying Gold from Africa only realise that such deals are all fake and never happen at an individual level getting connected with some local miner in Africa.

These western African nations do not have stable governments and therefore there exists no set of rules or regulations to carry out Gold / Diamond business for buyers around the world trying to make quick money but in the process the buyers get cheated and the con artists make quick money.

I appreciate you sharing the experience with this company in Accra, Ghana and putting the names here in order to alarm the other buyers.
These sellers ( or I rather call them con artists ) will furnish buyers with fake identities, incomplete address, or mixed up addresses, scam mobile phone numbers and will apparently in due course change the mobile numbers which they call from Africa. The sellers will not even use a real company name or real names of individuals. The licences, authentication which they furnish the buyers will be good or haphazard work on photoshop. I have several of these documents presented to us by these scammers. Virtually I have asked most of our clients not to involve with such companies to do such business activity and better stick to their real jobs and businesses.

The NEW GAME IN TOWN now is to ask for a copy of a tear sheet or a copy of a bank draft as POF since nobody who has his head in the right place will ever give a BG, SBLC, LOC, MT799 or the notorious MT103/23 to them anymore — for very good reason.
DO NOT GIVE BANK DRAFT COPIES! They will use this copy to find some poor sucker whom this bank draft will be offered for sale at a (huge) discount. As proof they will use your bank draft copy. The poor sucker will then be asked to make a downpayment and obviously will never receive the original check. ( thanks for this info and I agree with you )

These days many scammers are using Holland, France, UK and other European countries to sell their Gold, I agree with your last paragraph about such Gold being in possession of some African diplomat or envoy or consul or ambassador, all these are scammers.

Once again Lothar, I appreciate for your kind information and we hope to spread the word around and help people not to get cheated.

Mr. Kamara,
There could exist many private companies in Seirra Leone claiming to sell Gold. Nevertheless, such companies do not have any authentication in terms of being genuine businessmen. There is no control by the government for such trading as the governments themself are unstable and including the government officials are more over involved in such scams to cheat people around the world. No matter how hard people there try to convince and find new methods to cheat people. The truth is dont venture into such trading in Serra Leone. Incase if you have any relevant and set of procedures then I would love to hear them. As Mr. Henning has made it very clear in this website about the merits and demerits of this trading, I will not repeat what has been already discussed above. But people who have desire to deal with such activity will have only themselves to blame and no one else. I have not heard any private individuals or organisations securing and realising a Gold deal genuinely through loacl miners in your country. Apparently, I could only claim that Gold export of private individuals trying to buy Gold from Seirra Leone is myth.

In any case, you do not must be dissapointed about a lot of members of this blog. They still are resistant against qualified advise and do believe, they know it better and we are simple pessimists or do not appreciate their profits, born by their high graded business instinct.

Also most of them are no good and/or no fund brokers with prospective to become buyers, even without any own penny in the pocket but through their “cleverness”.

Among others, I can provide access to commodities as coal, minerals, AU or even agrar goods FOB Indonesia as Seller´s mandate, but will only offer on request and only when I am on place to exclude breach of contract from the supplier through changing of terms: seller first, commodity first and no pre-payment. – as well as fine Gold, not registered hallmark FOB Security house or refinery London for 2% below LBMA, but in this case Buyer must mandate me.

All of the so called Buyers still expect the Seller is happy to serve him on a silver plate.

Until they return to a realistic view, they will never even see one gram of whatever product.

I am again in Jakarta from Wednesday until the 2nd of August.
Feel free to contact me through email inter383@gmail.com in any purpose.

Hi Anil/ warrior.
I read your comment and I agree with -and practise the anti-education philosophy for the fraudsters, but if you study again my sent procedures and documents, you may will recognize, that it makes no change if they know or not.
There is no way to circumvent or fake evidence if they know or not.
Anybody who follow PB vs LC or the WGC trading protocol is savety, whatever the beggers try. – only losing the direction through emotions is danger.
Therefor, every person cumulating this information will be resitant against scam attacs

simple study the previous comments from Lothar Riedle from the 4th of June, some of mine as well, you will find their the “seller´s procedure” and will get the answer.
I do not know this name and even not the terms, but simple comparing the quotation and quantitiy with the real world and the practise in Ghana ( Phone no. is from there)
exclude 100% that this offer is real.

Hi David,
I’ve been seeking a gold supplier in several West African countries for past month, lots of replies and quotes, but i suspect 95% are from non genuine or dishonest traders, can you, admin or anyone please advise on a trustworthy supplier, preferabally any who comply with Escrow terms of payment as this is my main concern, almost all previous replies had a similar theme involving an advance payment via Western Union/Moneygram etc Any help would be very much appreciated as its very frustrating and time consuming dealing with so many ‘dodgy dealers’.
Regarda all.

I too have been working on many offers, always sniffing them out. We actually JV’d a concession in Liberia and will be JVing a small Co Op mining town in Ghana.

The only way this has happened is because we had long time family friends that were import exporters from those countries. In both countries they have spent at least 30 years living there and the states. Without these connections, we’d never be able to get a great rate on dore because we are putting up machinery, in our name only, zero money.

PMMC is a branch of the Ghana govt, you can strike whatever deal you want with the miners (you have to throw a bone to them to discount, get creative) and you run all your paperwork through PMMC, their procedures and Ghana bank. Any other procedure or changes to procedure, run!!!

We’re helping out a few sources with machinery, clothes, waterproof waders, cases of gloves, spare parts., ladders, batteries, flood lights, etc…we filled up a container for each JV. We simply make their lives easier, more productive, so they retrieve a larger yield, all that and we get a great (great!) discount and long lasting relationship.

You actually want to walk around Accra with 2 Mil. $ in your pocket?
By the way, there is no PMMC Tarkwa. There is only the PMMC and their procedure. Nothing else.

And then, you have to bring the goods yourself to the airport?
You will only get to the next crossing, where fake police men will stop you and impound the gold and put you in prison.
THE EXPORT OF GOLD DUST IS AGAINST THE LAW in GHANA.

PLEASE: All the information is in this blog. You could have known by simply reading all of these statements here.

Robert,
The best bet is to make the purchase through PMMC, just transfer the money to PMMC account at Bank of Ghana and make the seller the beneficiary of the payment. That was exactly what l did, l transfered money to PMMC account and made the seller the beneficiary,they will supply to PMMC and get paid by PMMC only assay was done. Any company that refuse this procedure is fake

Robert,
The best bet is to make the purchase through PMMC, just transfer the money to PMMC account at Bank of Ghana and make the seller the beneficiary of the payment. That was exactly what l did, l transfered money to PMMC account and made the seller the beneficiary,they will supply to PMMC and get paid by PMMC only after assay is done. Any company that refuse this process is fake

Mr. Davies: Since you have done the transaction successfully, can you let us know what discount you did receive from a verified seller? I’m evaluating this as a long term business but want to ensure the right numbers are in place.

I kindly request a list of genuine, legitimate, licensed, and reputable sellers of gold from Ghana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. I will also appreciate the laws regarding gold export in those countries as well as procedures for purchasing gold.

I am not sure if you noticed, this is supposed to be a serious forum and not some social facebook blog nonsense bla-bla.

Your quote is utterly disturbing and provides NOTHING to the community.

You obviously have no idea what damage corruption does to a country and their poor people. By claiming that a “wise man” has said this, you try to give it credibility. Instead this sound more like one of these thieves nowadays called oligarchs when they laugh about how they have robbed their own country. If this is considered wise, I don’t know. In the future best keep stuff like this to yourself..or post it some place else.

We have had this “request” several times now and it has always been answered in the same way. It takes to negotiate 1000 contracts to find a good seller. We are in a demand market and good sellers are few and between. You could just as well as for somebody who would be willing to sell you a new Mercedes Benz with a 50% rebate, CIF obviously.

I will speak to buyer’s contracted mandates only. We have limited but growing supply of AU DORE to offer, strict PMMC procedures. I could care less if your buyer is vetted or not because if they no show, I sell to PMMC.

So, with that being said, any REAL buyers RWA, I will show you that there are true businessmen in West Africa, that will honestly sell you AU.

For all you nay sayers, of course I can go to PMMC to unload, but PMMC doesn’t JV, do they?

Mr. David,
I have approved your comment on a reason to understand with who exactly are you dealing in UAE?
I am into Gold & Diamond business in UAE & other GCC countries for last 20 years. I want to know if you are real or just another scammer .
( * Dear readers please note that we do not take any responsibility of anyone dealing with Mr. David Allen Jones in business )
Thanks
Admin

I have always requested potential gold suppliers use Escrow to receive payment, this usually results in all sorts of excuses such as ‘Whats Escrow’ or ‘Its not available here’, ‘we only use Western Union’ etc
Can someone confirm if Escrow is available in Ghana/Cameroon etc as i thought it was available to anyone with a computer registering on http://www.escrow.com
For me its the only safe way to do deals.

I am a very good seller from Ghana of which I have done some transaction with some buyers from HK as well as Portugal and everything’s went successfully. The reason why most of you buyers are having a problem falling into the hand of bad people here is because of the price they go for gold here. When they meet the real seller because of the price he will give to them they will not buy from him and they will start looking for those people who claim that they have gold while they dont have it.

This is to inform you that this blog and especially this posting is for businessmen/individuals to beware of scammers around the world and to ensure all kinds of precautions in order to not to inccur financial loss while trading in Gold & diamonds.

Therefore, if some readers are going to just post comment asking for, if we can share information of real sellers, then kindly do not look for response from us. We are here to share only the process, procedures, genuinity of this trade. This is not some B2B website that lists sellers and buyers.

Further, also I would like to notify the scammers from Africa and other places who have been trying hard to send me comments, emails that they are real and genuine sellers. Once again, kindly do not waste your time as we have had enough experience in knowing who is real and who is not. We are getting tired of moderating comments from scammers who claim to be real.

I guess Mr. Lothar, Mr. Henning, Mr. Frank and us have made it very clear on the mechanics of this trade and its our duty as blog owners to not to let scammers use our blog as a mode of getting in touch with ignorant buyers.

We would also not tolerate and approve any offensive nature comments to get published on our blog, please note this is not a forum thread or facebook debate groups.

We thank and appreciate some of our regular readers and contributers especially Mr. Henning Pawelka, Mr. Lothar Riedle, Mr. Frank Davies and others for their valuable comments.
Lets keep networking, business and trade safe for others and safe.

THE SUBJECT OF THIS FULL CORPORATE OFFER (FCO) IS THE GOLD BAR TRANSACTIONS. THE TERMS, SPECIFICATION, CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

WHEREAS THE SELLER WITH FULL AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY REPRESENTS THE ABOVE FAMILY, MAKES AN IRREVOCABLE COMMITMENT TO SELL AND PROVIDE THE COMMODITY HEREIN MENTIONED ON GIVEN TIME, UNDER THE TERMS SPECIFIED AND AGREED UPON BY THE PARTIES.

WHEREAS, THE BUYER WITH FULL CORPORATE AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO BUY CONFIRM THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THE COMMODITY HEREIN MENTIONED AS CONTAIN HEREIN UNDER THE TERMS SPECIFIED OR AGREED UPON BY BOTH PARTIES. THE BUYER UNDER FULL CORPORATE AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY DECLARES THAT HE IS CAPABLE TO PURCHASE THE GOLD BARS.

THE BUYER WISHES TO ACQUIRE GOLD BARS FROM THE FAMILY, AS SPECIFICIFED BELOW.

CONDITION: BUYER OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE REQUIRED TO COME DOWN HERE IN GHANA TO WITNESS AND INSPECT THE PRODUCTS BEFORE SHIPPING TO THE BUYER REFINERY IN DUBAI.

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PAYMENT TERM
(A) BUYER WILL PAY 10% OF THE TOTAL COST AFTER CERTISFY WITH THE QUALITY OF THE GOLD AS PART PAYMENT TO ENABLE THE FAMILY AGENT PREPARE ALL LEGAL DOCUMENTATION AND 90% BALANCE WILL BE PAID WITHIN 72 HOURS AFTER THE FINAL ASSAY IN THE BUYER’S REFINERY IN HIS COUNTRY.

(B) THE 90% BALANCE PAYMENT WILL BE MADE DIRECTLY TO THE SELLERS NOMINATE ACCOUNT TO ENABLE THE FAMILY PURCHASE THE MINING EQUIPMENT AND MACHINES NEEDED FOR THEIR WORK.

THIS OFFER SHALL BE CONFIRMED AND SIGNED BY THE BUYER AND THE SELLER RESPECTIVELY AND SHALL BE BINDING TO INITIATE AND CONCLUDES THIS TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE PARTIES THAT UNDER SIGN THIS FULL COOPERATE OFFER.

(the only one missing is, that the seller is a reverent, priest or hold at least a PhD.)

And to make matters complete: They sell bars? Does this Family Chief have a refinery of himself or did he melt at ASAP or PMMC? If so, where is the certificate in his procedure.
By the way the maximum export cost through PMMC is 7,5% not 10%. But, I agree, having 10% which in this case would be some 150.000 US$ is better than having just 100.000 US$. So why not go for 10%?

I suggest, you forget the offer and don’t answer since your address will be spread to all scammers at a price.

and this is the email response as follwing, please let me know if i should deal with them or not, thanks for helping me through this blog.
We are reliable gold supplier from Greater Accra Central and we are ready to start partnership with any serious and reliable gold buyer for long term agreement.
Attached are the copies of our Family Full Co-operate Offer (FCO).Sellers banking details also attached in the FCO.
The reason why we need the 10% is for the export and shipment documents of the 50kg from the HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE GHANA for the shipment of the gold dust/bar to your country or refinery.

Meanwhile we can not disclose any of our recently buyer to you because every body is defending his identity in this field of business.

We are very honest and reliable to start business co-operation with you if only you are ready to start the co-operation with us by signing the FCO and returned back to us.
Seller Banking CoordinateBANK: CITIBANK
ADDRESS: 111 WALL STREET NEW YORK,NY US
SWIFT BIC CODE: CITIUS33
CREDIT: ZENITH BANK
ACCOUNT#: 36250618
SWIFT CODE: ZEBLGHACXXX
BENEFICIARY: FNB INVESTMENTS LTD
ACCOUNT#: 0004050101521

NOTE: Your payment of 10% is 100% secure and guaranteed in 4 working days to confirm the Export and shipment documents by fax or delivery by DHL to your current address.

Uriel Hyed,
How did you get in touch with this seller? If you have received an unsolicitated email in your inbox, then just forget about it, if you found this company from some B2B website, then I would issue a word of caution. Kindly avoid any business through internet, well I dont say all are scammers, but you need to have contact with these sellers through reliable sources known to you. If you really want to buy Gold, then its better you get in touch with PMMC Ghana or travel to Ghana ( which I suggest could be dangerous for you, if you dont have any past business relationship in that country ).
If you run above through the post and the comments, I guess you will be more then educated on this subject , as some readers have contributed with their valuable comments.
Mr. Roberto Tonnizo is right, why does the seller give a bank detail from NY., USA??? I agree with him.

If you look closely, you will notice that Citibank is only the receiving and immediate transfer bank. Final credit actually goes to Zenith Bank which is an African bank.
FNB Investment is allegedly a shipping company who claim to be working with e.g,. MAERSK shipping line etc. All bogus: Nobody at MAERSK have ever heard from this company. They have no gold export license which is required by law in Ghana.

where are all this soft and full corporate offers coming from? would not touch anything in trade with this (in my opinion uninformed) kind of documents.
in trade you request for quotation wit exact requirements than if seller is real and able to sell( normally he is sold out) than he will make u a serious offer. if the offer is a fco or some other doc i think its a broker or scammer. whats the difference in an offer an a fco anyway somebody knows?

Over the last few days, we have been in a transaction where the seller in Africa was a great businessman but due to lack of technology, was leery of using certain methods.

You have to remember that in other countries, they are still using dial up modems, wire transfers are hard for them to grasp, land lines are very expensive, cell phone calls overseas are too, their banking methods are behind in the times.

That all being said, not all businessmen in Africa are scammers, they simple do business the old fashion way, cash and carry. They don’t understand that arriving in a foreign land with millions in cash is impossible. For one, you cannot take more than $10k in the U.S. without paying a ton of tax on it, then figure this…$1million in $100 bills is a cube of 3 feet, that would be hard to lug around. Then when you arrive, everyone sees you as a sucker/target.

In a nutshell, you must vet your source very well, outside of the internet. It will take time and money. I would recommend you make business contacts overseas and forge a very good relationship, then visit them strictly for DD. I do NOT recommend going outside large cities because you might be simply held for ransom, they might think you are worth a lot of money, being from the U.S.

Also, you can use the U.S. Embassy in any country you wish to visit and vet names through them. The U.S. consulate in Ghana has very good advice for gold and other business guidelines.

Well Roberto,
the story goes like this:
These sellers claim to not have the monies to pay for the export cost which actually is somewhere between 6,5 and 7,5% of the value of the goods. So, there is a number of so-called financiers that pre.finance the shipments.

Now, this is all theory and stories of the sellers.
In fact, I do not really understand this.
BECAUSE: if some guy REALLY has 50,100,200 or even 500 (!) kg of dust, he is free to go to PMMC and sell them 2 or 3 kilos to directly and get paid. Then he has more money than he’ll ever need to pay for the export cost for the remainder 498 kg.

Does somebody has experience with legally exporting gold from Conakry?
I`ve been there few times,but all proposals sounded to ……suspicious,what else can I say.
Depositing gold in national bank,than receiving it on airport(white paper/yellow paper)…all that sounded to me strange.
I`m in gold business almost 20 years all around world,but i never herded so much BS and complicated procedures like in Conakry.
Does somebody really bought gold and exported it that way?
tnx in forward

Hi, I have a problem with Samuel Ackah and Kairaba HOLDINGS LIMITED. Presented export documents to us and told that dust is going to Italy. We paid for duty 3800 eur and the dust is not in Italy. We have a suspicion that we were deceived. Does anyone know this company?

Oh my gold, this scammer found another one. We have warned in this site about Samuel Ackah and his cronies, one of which is Prince Kennedy which he uses as his marketing manager. Ackah has several “company” names he deals with. Another one is Kerzermith Co. Ghana.
This guy is criminal and he uses lots of other people to prepare his scams.

As far as I can tell, you can kiss your money good buy. Haven’t you studied all the statement here from Henning, Warrior and others. They have always advised, NEVER to send money upfront. All you do is finance their lavish lifestyle. 3800 Euros is an annual salary for a top government employee in Ghana.

He is a definite and known scammer and all his offers are fraud. he even has a registered company in London by the name of Kerzermith. He has several names of companies he “deals” with. There is also the company by the name of Kerzermith and there is another guy he works with by the name of Joseph Danquah, also to be know working for a whole lot of other scammers. You should have seen the SKR he sent me from a company called Equities Security Company in Accra. Their slogan is: “Your security is our proud”
My 9 year old son could have come up with a better document which, when you open it with your PC or Mac and look at the “properties” of the document, you’ll even find the name of the program which he used.
It’s actually that simple!

Needless to say there is no Kerzermith, there is no Equities and there is no company by the name of Kairiba Holdings in the Ghana company registry..
As a matter of fact, there is no Gold, certainly not with this guy. He only banks on “greed eats brain”.

All they want is advance pay or a bank security instrument which they will put immediately to a private trade platform.

Aren’t there enough warnings on this platform and all other scam forums?

Sorry indeed that you lost money but, you should kiss it good buy. It is gone ..
3800 Euros is double the income of a normal worker in Ghana.
Too bad it went into the wrong pockets.

This is the Problem like always. Govts. have not interst to reject them from the market.
We already discussed “Kerzersmith” since years sometimes. While Names and person as usual always change, but anyway never importnat, what is so heavy to understand; THAT SELLER FIRST; COMMODITIY FIRST; NO PRE-PAYMENT AND no WHATSOEVER – like travel e.g. FIRST is acceptabel?

You really need to do some homework, you are a prime example of how people get ripped off. You have no idea of what you are doing, you are green, will loose your family, career, marriage and friends if you continue this, the deal is always “just a few days away”

Dear Roberto,
I appreciate your response to Tariq. Usually we do not moderate the nature of comment as posted by Mr. Tariq, but we thought it would be a good example how people try hard get ripped off. This blog and several contributors have made very clear about the insecurities and scammers in the Gold & Diamond business, yet people ignorantly get their financial head axed.
Thanks
Admin

I was just about to write to Tariq along the lines of your text. I could not put in better words and you are absolutely right.
Anyone reading this blog should be aware that “these people” have been at it for years, refined and honed their approach. If anybody believes that they will the ones outsmarting these guys — you are dead wrong, they will make a turn where you will neither notice nor believe. Meanwhile their “hook in your flesh” is already deep enough that you will only see what you will like to see .. and you will loose your money and have to explain to your wife, how you could be so stupid ..

its so true..this is by far the best advice to anyone who decides to get involved in this..we are so easily get blind and so focused and little by little we abandon our loved one to chase the rainbow..

Thank you guys for this blog. I have look in hundreds of offer and have never done a big deal in west Africa. I have been in Mali Benin etc. And still looking for a seller. But this blog have some basic info for any person looking to buy gold

To all of you who are still thinking (and want to believe) that you can buy GOLD in Africa for huge discounts:

My associate and friend (who has lived in Nigeria for 10 Years before) just came back from a trip to Ghana with the immense load 560 grams (!) of gold. This is all we could buy locally in 7 days!!!
We had it melted at ASAP VASA which then gave us a certificate with the gold now being 99,99% well, well, when it arrived in the refinery in Germany it had somehow collected 3 % silver..

AND NOW: The street discount in Ghana is 7-10% BEFORE melting.
QUESTION TO ALL OF YOU:
While there are gazillions of Chinese, Americans, Canadians and Australians roaming the street of Accra and Kumasi, wanting to buy gold …. WHY ON EARTH do you think that anybody that knows you from the internet, would sell it to you for 30% less??

And the answer is:
He has no gold to sell but, he wants some (or better all) of your wonderful money. And if greed eats brain, he will get it! Your money that is!

Again: The rules are easy and have been spelled out many times in this forum.
If you still do not believe it, you will be deprived of all your money.
Guaranteed!

Do you think Tanzania gold sellers do they generally good i have been monitoring the gold sellers on the internet for the last 2 years but more than 25 sellers from west africa try to take my money but i resisted. But please tell me most of the Tanzania sellers are from Congo
Does Tanzania has good government set up to monitor the sellers i was told that is but i need to know any of your blogers to share there thoughts on this

Alex,
Be VERY CAREFUL with purchase from Tanzania they are all crooks!! My buyer went there and wanted 5kgs to begin with-the seller(An American White fellow and a Black General) did the deal they also offered 50kgs total. The buyer unfortunately paid for the 5 kgs after inspecting it????? My advise was take to SEAMIC first(Refinery) then pay after assay-These 2 scammers swopped the box and the poor buyer was left with brass.

@Alex . Nick replied late, therfore I think, any advise may is too late, In case you still think about, I will give some general advise which should be focussed together with the basics a lot of times published here already.

To own Gold you need a license, issued from the Commisioner of mining
( and therefore he can approve any license “suggestion”)
Without this license, ownership or even carrying gold in any form is illegal!!
A “Broker” license indicates the permission to purchase or sell Gold inside Tanzania. Any offer from natives other than Tanzanian are fakes!
and/ or the gold is smuggled. A “Broker” license – is a privileged national right and will be issued only to Tanzanian natives.

With a “Dealer” license you can trade Gold inside Tanzania as a foreigner, but only if you have been entered into a Joint-Veture with a Tanzanian native which keeps a minimum stake of 25%.
To Export Gold as a dealer, you need an export license.
Accordingly to the Mining Act, before exporting Gold must be approved by the Commisioner of Mining who will seal the consignment againsdt a royalty fee.

Same is valid for rough diamonds. Only difference is the kind of approval and certificate as they issue a KPC ( Kimberley Processing Certificate)

It’s a common known scam industry in Dar Es Salam, mostly from Congo like e.g. Captain John which suggest to own high quantities, offers a huge discount and simple rob you with and without local licensed companies
Same as in Ghana you have dealers offices at any corner, mostly lebanese and chinese who purchase FOB.
Any CIF offer – as in Ghana for example- is a fake.

My compadres are back in Ghana and they try to buy some three kilos (!) this time around in order to continue to build relationships with local miners and become trusted as genuine buyer. None of them is a chief, next of kin, reverend or PhD, by the way.
There are in fact many complaint about buyers trying to cheat sellers.
BUT, believe me, cheating sellers outnumber cheating buyers by 1000:1.
There are Chinese with luggage cases full of money (and a big guy with an Uzi next to him), willing to pay almost any price .. . .. you figure it out!

Again Street Price in the villages is MINUS 7-10% (depending on quantity). Miners only grin when you tell him about these minus 30% offers and they tell you that 30% off of a non-existing deal doesn’t sound to bad –> for the cheater that is…

You want AFRICAN GOLD? Then do what we did. Go there yourself, build a relationship with local miners and give them a fair price. Don’t bank on ASAP VASA to give you a real analysis, they may be off by at least 3 % .. Don’t wave with bundles of money since they will be people more than happy to make you depart from it. If you are lucky you survive.. get somebody local you can trust who speaks the languages (plural!) and the lingo of the miners..

Otherwise, open your window and throw out the money. At least your neighbors will love you and appreciate what you are doing..

Therefore, let me give you a basic rule:

Any discount over 10% for gold with good purity equals fraud. Full stop.

If somebody offered you a brand new Mercedes AMG 6.3 for 30% off, would you believe it? And gold right now is been sought after even more than a Mercedes Benz. Unfortunately ….
But if you believe these guys, you’ll be seeing these guys driving the Benz instead of you..with a grin on their face..
That in any way, it is good for our economy one way or another, but not for you.
So, please be careful!

Oh dear KWAME .. I think I know who you are! .. and your comment is typical.

So, let me try to follow your logic.

There a gold selling scammers because there are cheating buyers?
Is that correct? Then it is the buyers fault that there are scammers?
Good buyer outnumber good seller 1000:1 and it is getting worse by the day..

Hello Phil or whatever you call yourself, there are 101 registered company in Ghana that perpetrate gold fraud, l am not saying all the gold sellers in Ghana are scammers, all l am saying is that PMMC and Minerals Commission can do a confirmation for a company and the company can still go ahead and defraud you, so dont fool people with this PMMC and Minerals Commission verification issue, its very common okay. l know and so do most people, that real miners dont solicit for buyers because they already have stand-by buyers that have already given them money in advance, so enough of your crape, yes you can give us an American number to call you, but l know its a MAGIC JACK. What do you people take this forum for, you think we are pot-head or what ????. Phil, l want you to know that your cover has been blown, your a scammer. Please never you post any message on this forum again, you scammer

I have gone through your notes, I have been doing reasearch for past 6 months, lots of email, phone calls from sellers, lots of way trying to convince me sending money upfront. When it comes to Ghana, I have made simple procedure, any seller approaching you for selling gold offering discount, first thing to ask is to follow PMMC or ASAP VASA procedure, real seller will come forward, get seller’s legal documents, verify it from PMMC by email or phone call. Get physical address of the Seller’s office, fly to Ghana, make your pick up & drop off service through hotel. Verify the physical address of seller through hotel staff, if seller’s office is in city, visit the office and if in remote area ask seller to meet you in hotel lobby, sign the contract, exchange the documents, set up time to meet at PMMC same day or next day. Going to PMMC use hotel’s transportation, once at PMMC, after smelting and assay, PMMC will ask you to make the payment at seller’s account through bank, leave the gold under the custody of PMMC go along with seller to the bank, make the deposit, keep the receipt with you, come back to PMMC, do the export procedure through them, ask them about the insurance company and freight company this you can do even before doing transaction from PMMC. I would suggest to start with 1kg of gold as initial transaction, don’t carry cash, get traveller’s cheque or cash withdrawal at the bank through credit card or other instruments.

Things not to do
Don’t forward your passport copy for visa purpose to seller, you can get visa either through embassy or hotel in Ghana incase no embassy in your country
Don’t inform about your arrival date to Seller
Don’t pay any upfront fee till the gold arrives in refinery
Don’t carry cash to refinery
Don’t use seller’s transportation
Don’t carry gold or allow the seller to take the gold from refinery after assay while going to bank for payment to seller’s account
Don’t do export through companies referred by seller though it might be cheaper

These are few basic points to follow, any suggestion, additions, deletions are most welcome.

Hi Warrior,
just read the comment from this Phil guy. I suggest we stop publishing his comments. Henning is the least that deserves such a bashing. He has been a very knowledgable contributor and mind you, we do not have to contribute, this is voluntary. Given Phil’s insulting comments, he most certainly is one of those guys. That is a typical experience, once you uncover them, they insult you. Serious business men have no need to resort to such a behavior.
IF Phil is a real seller as he claims, why isn’t he posting documents from deals done or is giving references of people that have received products from him?
Let’s not give these people the opportunity to drag down this portal.

Phils comments are deleted. If he was a real seller he wont use various emails like the scammers usually do. Indeed such scammers resort to the last method of insulting people who are substantially trying to uncover such scammers. Eventually they are these days trying new methods to get into our blog and display initially that they are working on uncovering scam and then later they expose their real intentions, just like we have seen Phil do. I read and approved a comment by Jegar and was waiting to see what kind of reply Phil will give Jegar.

Thanks to you for always being such a valuable contributor for thsi blog and also to Henning, Frank and others.

Phil, sometimes less words are more valuable than a lot of words to undervcover your real targets.
I met hundreds of people like you, always when I am in Ghana.
Why did you not simple declare the facts? – that

you have no mandate from the sellers “real or not!”
need to be paid from the “Buyer”
knows, that any Buyer who already purchase from your “known sellers” can and will purchase any additional quantity as well.
that we talk – if it exists – only about the identic quantities which are normally sold to their buyers, but that you have promised them to provide buyers which pays a better price
Phil, Frank is totally right.
If you are not a scammer, you are at least a snake who try to destroy an existing contract on your advantage without any risk and even no Gh Cedis or US$ cent investment from your side.
If you´re succesful with this you´re upgraded to a thief by steeling the promised consignment from a regular and genuine buyer.
What´s your next plan? Your new”client” will than upgraded to the approx. next victim?
Henning Pawelka

can I suggest, that the two of you battle this out through your personal mail account rather than posting lengthy justification mails on this board?
There is no way how the rest of this community can find out if this is real or not.
Thank you.

Lothar can you please send me your email id, please. I need to show you a document that was send me as past proof of performance by a seller. Please send me an email urgently. I need your expertise to verify this seller’s past sale Air way bill.Roxxd@rediff.com

Dear All, I will be travelling to Ghana next week, I have found a realiable seller who is selling gold and ready to do the transaction through PMMC, my initial transaction with him will be for 1kilo, if things work out proper I will be doing some more transaction with him for the same quantity and then I will recommend you all once I am completely satisfied. Wish me luck and pray for me to be successful in my mission. Regards

I hope you´ve followed you own advise and did the Due Diligence through PMMC.
If not, may I can give you a final advise.
Do not tell them where you are staying, reject an escort from Airport and escorts at all. Do not meet them on others than public places and always keep somebody in the background who watch you invisible.
You are cash on two legs, never forget!
Good luck

Dear Shalom,
The best strategy for you is this, it was what l did when l purchased gold from Ghana in August. Pay the money to Bank of Ghana account at CITIBANK N.A, further credit to PMMC and and then make the seller the beneficiary of the payment, PMMC will pay the seller after supply and assay, l know sellers that will agree to wok with you this way. If the seller dont supply PMMC will return your money back to you and its as simple as that, in that case you dont need to waste your time and com to Ghana hence PMMC will ship the gold to you. Sellers will not bring their gold to PMMC unless they are sure that the money is already in PMMC account, dont believe what other people are telling you. Buyers can contact me for more indebt details: frankdaves@ymail.com

To this group:
Pre advise!
I am on some tracks of beggers or at least “No Good Brokers” which are highly suspecious that they are phishing for Banking instruments. They are operating in a multinational network, based from Australia through Dubai, South Africa and Ghana.
Take care if you will be contacted from:
South African: Martin Britz South Africa/ Ghana, personally approved scammer
Australian: Dr. André Homberg, Mondore LLC, Dubai, minimum no good broker, used as a tool to fraud, personally approved
Australian: Alexander Gordon Chambers, CLEAN WORLD TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD Australia, in my opinion head of the system together with another
Australian: Mr. Kim Albaek, Southern Star Mining Ghana with track record Interpol Ghana for fraud suspecious and supposed to be the seller.
I am in processing of legal actions against this indivudals and Companies.
To get better weapons, anybody who knows them, has received offers or any kind of experience with one or all of them, please share this facts with me. Thanks in advance,
Henning

Hi All, I got green signal from PMMC, the seller company is registered with PMMC. Henning appreciate your advise. Hopefully this week I will be in Ghana to do the first deal with 1kg and see how it works. All the procedure will be through PMMC. Will give you all the feedback soon.

hello,
I received a contract for GOLD DUST. The payment is MT799 & T/T after the final assay report of the buyer’s refinery. Is there any risk for the buyer with MT799? the supplier/seller is in Ghana. I really want to see the real good transaction. Please advise me about this.
Thanks, Young.—-bdskang56@naver.com

I received an offer from DevineCiek Company in Ghana and l want to know if anyone has heard about this company before, they are offering gold for sale as well as gold concessions, please l implore the admin to investigate for me

Solomon, to check if the company is legitimate, the best way is to verify their documents from PMMC, secondly don’t strike deal other than having it through PMMC, AA Minerals or ASAP VASA. Ask for recent export documents from the company, these is the basic steps at initial stage of dealing.

Solomon,
a Fellow from my linkedin fraud-protection-groups introduced him to me.
May he can give you a hand for DD of your “seller”
But anyway,
Roxx: if he have an airway bill he must also have the confirmation from Bank of Ghana or – if in another country – from the national bank as well as certificate of ownership from high court.
At least, forget the export evidence. ask for the import documents.
It´s common use to deliver a stock in the vault for export, receive the document and withdraw the consignment next day to sell you a box smuggled in the destination country, mostly GB, Belgium or Netherlands. Offers to take a sample from a security house inside the country, asking for shipping fee before they can release the AU from this place and exchange the box while you believe you´ve the keys and the world is nice to you. Box moves to a neighbour box and awaits the next.
May it makes senses, that you look at previous comments from Lothar, Frank, others and maybe a little bit from me as well, to recognize, that any tool to avoid losing money by fraud already exist in this blog.

@Arnold
I do not know Noel, but I know a lot af the names, accused for scam on his listing and I know that they are beggers.
I am not sure how you got your experience to state Noel is a fraudster as I never heard about any offer, made from him.
A scammer normally follows a system to achieve a target as for example phishing clients or steel money
I couldn´t find anything else than naked informations with contact details from scammers.
Please furnish this blog through the admin with your verifiable and written approval about.

@Arnold,
beside the fact that we do not know Noel and his targets, nor do we know YOU and YOUR targets. One point is very clear.
Following your accusation:
It doesn´t change anything for members of this blog.
1. His information are usefull as they address scammers
2. If he needs to “pick-up” buyers/ clients through this phishing what you mentioned, he makes no dime on them, because I believe that all of them will follow our published protecting procedures what exclude any kind of pre-payments as well as it brings the seller in charge to provide Seller first and commodity first or will ask here for additional advise anyway
What if you and/or your friends are an his list and you are trying to discredit him, simple to phish reputation on his neck? Somebody may will call this “very clever” as well.
I don´t know the thruth and to be serious, I really don´t care.
Persons are not important only the systems. Phishing in this blog for whatever reason is wasted time for the scammer anyway.

Thank you for this blog. You can see that I am not using my real name. Here is a consice narrative of my own experience.

I had gold fever. I thought I was smarter than average and would find a real seller. I searched for ” african gold scams ” on line. I found Noel’s blog which reveals the scammers. I thought that was very cool and took it at face value. I contacted him and he referred me to a “real seller.” After realizing I had been scammed I did a post mortem investigation and, as a Gmail user, found that Noel, the seller, and the bogus US satisfied customer all had the same IP address in Ghana, meaning they were using the same computer ( sent that IP info earlier ) I also searched the cell phone number and it came up on a list of scammers. Now my identity is being used with an email address very similar to mine and I occasionally get emails about this when people search my name to verify. I routinely search my name and company to alert others and I found my name and false contact on this blog.

Please let your readers know that although Noel’s blog is handy for checking for scammers, don’t ask him for a real seller. I don’t know any real sellers and I am not promoting myself here. I just want to keep my name clear and alert others who might see an endorsement by me ( which you graciously deleted ) or anyone for that fact. So please allow me to do so with my pseudonym. BTW, scammers will often misspell and capitalize words in the middle of a sentence, and use odd grammar and expressions when impersonating Americans.

Hello All of you i have seen all of your comments.i am also in this business.I want to give you advise.if some give your offer.u just say that i will give you visa i will give you your return ticket come to my country with sample if u want otherwise just come when u reach then we send payment to your company for export export expenses then you send me gold.if they are real so he come to you country.when he come go in the court and make agreement and take his passport in your custody and send export charges to his company they will never scam with you bez he is in your country.this in only way to do business in Africa..

Dear Eric,
I have approved your comment in order to get some clarifications from you and not to lead the the readers to believe that the link that you provided is real. As you mentioned in your email you are in Bombay, India. Well we have our company in Bombay , India and I would like to have your contact details so that our team member could meet you. However, we are fully aware of the Gold/ Diamond business trade in India and all its procedures unlike Africa. If you are in Bombay why do you have your email sent to me from an IP address in Africa ????? I would expect a quick response or else we would take appropriate action for trying to scam people through our blog.

Hi Anil,
I am quiet sure, that Eric will not reply and up from tommorow, we will meet some newcomer named Fred, or however in personalunion with “Eric”.
It´s old fashion to adopt a well recognized and good reputated blog as their own reputation.
During the financial crisis, this fraud-industry is growing in high speed and all international blogs. One victim with an opening offer of less than 50kg is enough to finance ten new companies. That´s how they leverage right now.
You did a good a good job to point out the right facts with your question about the location of the IP adress, but unfortunately, as well you educate same moment the scammer to avoid this suspecious aspect for the next trial. That´s life. Anyway, members of this and other qualified blogs will not use these unbeatable offers, therefore, it doesn´t matter the right persons.

if you do like to do yourself a favor, you should stop givind recommendation of sellers now!
Applicants shall do their own experience personally on place and care to not forget the basics, learned here, but asking you or anybody else for paid experience, giving for free is less than a shame.
Also, previous good experience is no guarantee for the future.
What are you doing, if the applicant will be begged from one of your recommandation? They will try to bring YOU in court for reimbursement,
For what? For lazy people who do not need to pay for investigative service as any investor will do noemally? ( I do not know even one investor without request for independent Due Diligence)
It´s up to you, but I will miss you, if you are in jail for fraud suspects, born from your good-will advise and even no return for.

Thanks for your concern. But we do not offer any expertise on sellers through this blog. We know that several scammers and wanna be buyers want to fall into trap and find easy way out to get in touch with the sellers. Well there is no easy way out to find real sellers in Africa. Further, we also do not offer any investigating service to the wanna be buyers here ( or through unsolicited emails ). We only do personal dealings with our clients at our office premises, and we are really tight on our assignments right now. I value your concern and thank you for your advise here.

This website is purely on literature, journalism, essays and articles ( The Gold & Diamond scam articles is to offer only advise to people not to get conned and to beware ). Like I said we do not do any kind of business with anyone through this website. These articles on Gold and Diamond with all your valuables suggestions and advise above is only to assist people to not to loose their money and life.

Don’t do it Hussain, it is a scam! If they have gold, they could easily sell 1 or 2 kilos to PMMC and then they have all the money they need for export. If they give you gold as collateral? How do you know it is real? Even if it is real, HOW do you expect to bring it outside of the country. Exporting gold without a license is illegal. Secondly: Please be sure, they will take it away from you, most likely by someone who has a phony policy officer dress or it will be confiscated at the airport some 30 min. before your flight leaves. And then, what do you do?
Best,you stay away from such deals, they have never worked.
Lothar

Kairaba Holdings ltd/sokasam investments. These companies are fake. The people involved are being hunted down and arrested. if any one would like to contact me for information pertaining to them please feel free to do so. My email address is petermellors@hotmail.co.uk. A case against them is being brought about and any additional information anyone can furnish me will only add to the ability to track them down and bring them to justice. This might not mean you will get your money back but you will be safe in the knowledge that they are rotting in a nigerian jail for a great length of time. I have no doubt these people have already fled to the jungle as they are aware that we are looking for them and will pursue them until they are arrested. Thank you.

This is a very good site, am a gold buyer aswell presently in Ghana residing at the Transaco Estate. Here is a link to a recent scam we uncovered in Ghana involving Abibirem miners. They were not aware that we all planned this, right now as am writing, they are in jail awaiting trial. If you know of any scam company, you can send the details to me by email. I working with Ghana police and other reliable sources to get most of these scammers arrested.

same rules for everybody – including you –
One good performance is no guarantee for the future.
I sent you documents with evidence ( copies to warrior) and even got no reply from you at all.
I am wondering about your (no) reaction and that borns some suspecious.
Are you blowing hot air? phishing buyers? or why did I got no reply? -or even a request for more details?
That smells with bad taste

Hello Henning, I am in Ghana, no issues at all, people are very friendly here, I move around by Taxi, met few real sellers in their office, I would say some people have created bad image over the internet about Ghana, as such I haven’t experienced anything yet but I am still very cautious. Regarding Todd, I wonder how you got duped, I have seen your export documents at one of the seller’s office who exports through PMMC and you had exported some gold from this seller 3 – 5 kilos monthly. I will keep posting the updates here. Regards

Dear Hussain, The gold will be yours only when you have the ownership document of the gold, so bear in mind that collateral gold which you will have should have the ownership on your name or else the seller can claim from you any time. Secondly you have be sure in which part of African country you will be doing this transaction, be sure of ministries, and other government department locations so that the seller doesn’t guide you through their self made ministries and cargo company. Lastly you can also get help of doing due diligence through their embassy/consulate in your country.

If I would be in your position, I would let them address me the designated “carrier” first, and at least, why you shall pay them, if they simple can give them a hundred gram of the consignment and pay themselves?
I believe, they will ask you after arrival , to talk to the chief, wherever in Africa and will tell you, that he will not release the consignment to the carrier, before he will have a 15-30% downpayment in his hand and so on….

Todd already published this link and as the victim I honor this very much.
Other may should do the same. It´s the only way to show these members who still believe that nobody can cheat them, that this business do not allow even one mistake. Knightking 77, how was your trip ( posted 10/15/11?

Dear Henning, Thanks for asking, I haven’t yet departed to Ghana, I am almost prepared with everything, got 3 sellers who are ready to bring the gold to PMMC, ASAP VASA or AA Minerals. Verified their documents through PMMC.

I was also able to find an agent in Accra who knows few miners in bush, I am keeping all the options incase if one of the options fails. In a week or ten days I should be on ground in Ghana.

After watching Todd’s story, I would suggest that people who really want to buy gold should start up with 1 or 2 kilos, make every transaction as your first transaction.

@knightking77
May I can give you some additonal advise?
Before you even book the flight, ask your seller to send you their Purchase and Sales Contract. A FCO never shows the disadvantages.
If there is a demand for, send me your email address and I will submit you risk free PMMC contract and some standard form to assure, that you are clear about the basics.
Feel invited to submit their contract – anonymized of course:-) and I will point out the risk, to enable you issuing the ammendments before you invest time and money for your stay.
Also try to stay on PMMC. All ways are leading to them anyway, but do not trust “PMMC agents”! A lot of them are part of fraudulent sheme.Delivery must be into the premise in Accra.
Also, through the Govtl. taxation on LBMA base, you shall be familar to avoid additional costs and accusing of money laundering, illegal transactions…… on a legal way.

Beside legal aspects, it´s also a question of initial investment to decide this way.
PMMC do not charge a dime for opening a metal account, but you must apply for and they make their own DD to accept you as client.

AA Minerals charge you USD 500 and ASAP VASA USD 3,500 only for account opening.
If the seller reject any other than ASAP VASA it´s essential, that you only agree, if Henry Parker Vroom confirms by himself – and before payment of opening fee – that he will do the assay by himself and that ASAP VASA will gurantee for their own report. You also shall order him for export without touching the consignment. For him – and only for him – I can confirm, that he has supported me with supporting getting evidence about fraud through his own staff collaborating with the scammer, while I ws been hired to escort a potential buyer for protective reasons.
Same requirement must be obliged for AA Minerals: Ohoneba Kojo Quartsin shall grant you this as well.
If the persons reject your aim, they have reasons, but because they are living there, while you are leaving, they will not explain.
Anyway, any rejecting must cancel the deal or you will lose any cent you invest including, but not limited on operating expenses.

At least, all of this refineries do have accounts with other international refineries, e.g. Metalor Switzerland. Ask them to be deliverred from theses account and not from Ghana account, because except KLM, it difficult to get an insurance for the carriage, since AU fraudster vcalaimed against airlines for exchanging of valued consingments. If you order shipment from Ghana, take care, that you use personal carrier order and not luggage storage insurance.

If the business has fundamental basics, showing a realistic option to be realized and you are doing this for profit and not for physical ownership, you may should think about to sell this directly to the refinery who make the assay, what brings up the question, why the seller is not proceeding this way and – depending on the offer – gives a valuable gift to you.

Do not accept their lift to the hotel, can be lead into the djungle as well.
Never forget, you are cash on two legs, therefore, take somebody with you who watch each movement of you.
Finally, before you start your trip, you should study again all of the comments and advise in this favorable blog and you are mostly protected, except your brain makes a brake after looking into a glimming box.
In urgency on place, contact me. I have good people on place.

Gentlemen,
I am from all over the world; from the dungeons of London to south side of Chicago, so please rest assured that I intend not to part with a penny except for a thought!
And as knight 77 requested, all I wanted to know was the kind of different tricks these little boys have up their sleeves so the less experienced of us players can get a preview.
I for one will not be caught with my pants down unless its with the opposite sex.
But worse come to worse, with these rouges, if you out smart them their last resort is the gun. So either way you lose.
Curiosity didn’t quite kill the cat yet and he is here begging the for the different stunts these pretend gangster boys have or are likely to pull, given the details which i have provided.
Regards

@Todd
you got my email and I am wondering that I not even got even a reply from you.

In any case, through the submitted documents, you share a part of my experience with them and know, why it is important to work – if it´s not to avoid – only through the owner Henry Parker Vroom and the guarantee of full responsibility of ASAP for their report and export.
Same scam options from staff members can occur with PMMC “authorized Agents” , what you found in the docs as well.
Any successfull previous deal with whomever will never be a gurantee for the next one. Therefore anybody should try to get the deal done inside the premise of PMMC, but also there, he shall count each business as the first, but always suggest to the counterpart, that some more consignments are following.

I can confirm: William Boateng is a scammer and he is dangerous.
Do not deal with him. he also works with a guy called Prince Kennedy Ama. he also is a scammer and works under several identities and company names.
Lothar

Scammers in Ghana!
Hey guys I’m new to this blog and just wanna aware you of some ghanain guys working for a fake company named Abdul mining.or Abdul majeed enterprise.They are all fake,but they know very well about gold and stuff related with.the fucking leaders are Papa Kobina Thompson and Farouk Abdul Adams. They got a nice home page but empty indeed.
They’re muslims but whatever they say is lie.
If you visit them in Ghana,they’ll recommend you to a great hotel,take you to a mining village which does not belong to them.
When you get to the village three old men (over 50years old)will welcome you,one of them stands as a chief,they call him Nana abdul,but he’s far from being a chief,all they do is theater and fake. they have no gold but brast.
So please be very careful when you come across those liars,don’t even listen to them. The same thing goes for Justice Akoto,that guy also is a scammer.
Thank you!
Zugulu

Phil,
Currently are you in Ghana or US?
You have not replied to my earlier questions asked few days ago. How legitimate you are to carry out such transactions in Ghana. Do you hold any export licence or authentication from the Ministry of Mines or PMMC. I understand Ghana is very risky place and showing even proof of funds can land a person in trouble. Well for some reason I dont trust what you have to say and all the story about you and Rusty doing a deal just through a blog, Are you kidding me???? Who does business through emails and internet without personal interaction and by the way you dont even hold a legal standing to do such transactions. I understand that all transactions to US is monitored by the State.Gov Dep!!!!!!

I doubt what you say, you have a used a good technique by offering some free advise here and that way to show that you know exact rules of doing a transaction in Ghana. Well those procedures are well covered by some people above in response to the posting here.

Sorry matey , I dont trust a single word what you say. I doubt very much that you are a really selling gold.

Phil, thanks to you for clear confirmation about your status as a scammer!
Why are you still in this blog – under this name? real, or not? and do wotk with such a poor system?
Let´s see what we have:
You have a client in Jerrsey who expect this consignment deliverred at Tuesday, but you agreed to breach together with the seller this contract for the benefit of some Mr.X with cash arriving on Monday. Very trustfull. Isn´t it?
What, if your gang do not need to brake the contract, but cash double?
Your seller feeds the AU in seller´s assay account and shall pay you at monday in cash in Ghana, before certificate of ownership can be issued.
The assay report and previous documents sare completely issued on your seller´s name. Buyer pays you, leave PMMC, one of your cousins is awaiting outside with fake police uniform, or even without but gunned asking for buying licenses or simple steels the consignment and all documents.
In best case that´s it – in worst case, he capture the Buyer for at least one day, what shall be enough, because with all documents and assay report, still issued on the origin account holder and – previous- owner, he can talk his flight to Jersey on time and deliver the client in US, which is happy as well as he will confirm the genuine of the seller because his receipt.
Why you are not looking for a new and better system? The whole world knows about this old fashion. Please surprise us, we are boring working always with this old stuff!!

Henning,
Its very clear that Phil is a scammer, He makes a sentence about Gold being imported to Jersey, US as if they are carrying potatoes….US has the most strict customs regulation, taxes, etc and not to mention the origin of importing commodity in US always requires legal documents and will be monitored by State Gov dep.
I am not sure if Phil is in Ghana or US, but his IP address locates him
IP: 69.253.55.26, c-69-253-55-26.hsd1.pa.comcast.net
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Latitude 39.9302, Longitude -75.2160

I am glad he said so much here exposing himself eventually to be a fake.

Phil has to stop making fool of others as he is making fool of himself.

Jegar,
what´s if this traget with sotrong restrictions is part of the plan?
Do not forget, that Buyer must show POF located IN GHANA, before anything else.
What´s if the Buyer is the target and simple capture industry is running?
Anyway, if somebody in a blog will yell me a scammer and no other member of the blog will defeat me, normally, it´s a question of honor and self-value that I leave this blog.
But where to go?
Linkedin? is danger I am very active there as well and members are educated.
Alibaba? Possible, but there s a high competion. A lot of the members of his “businessfield” are already established.
I guess it´s hard for him to survive on his low level -)

I presume that you are trying to sell something through our blog in loosely based procedures which do not adhere to the standard procedures of Ghana. We have contacted the African Union Chamber of Commerce and they have replied that the mechanics which you have mentioned to buy gold dust do not comply with Ministry of Mines and PMMC and could lead to a liability for the buyer. Like I said before that we do not allow to use our blog as a platform for sellers or scammers to sell products. We are only doing a social service to people who would ignorantly fall prey to scammers.

I support the views expressed by Mr. Henning and Mr. Jegar. If you are going to use reverse techniques by adding your free suggestion and then lead buyers into trap, then we are extremely disappointed by your approach and we suggest to kindly do not try to post comments that you possess gold and how you have been doing deals all over US or Ghana. Some of our valued contributors like Mr. Lothar, Mr. Henning, Mr. Frank and others have made great attempt by offering exemplary suggestions in order to understand proper methods and to avoid getting into a scam.

I just was been kidding.
Phil already is dead here. If somebody follwow up the history of Phil and stll believes he´s real, there is no help possible, except medical.
I am very sure that he already is on strong research for easier playgrounds than here, where contributors have decasdes of experiences to handle guys like him.
Let´s wait for the next:-)

Mr Randy, are you living in a fools paradise or you live on earth, no legitimate seller will ship gold to you without proof of cash ready for payment, even Ashanti Gold can not do that and that is the biggest mining company in the world, please come to reality okay and dont come to a scam blog and start making claims which are not verified. Numerous buyer have bought gold through Wassa Group and am one of them, l have another contract with them and so does John Coe
and other buyers,

having no published a residential address doesn´t mean automatically must be unserious, as it exists sometimes good reasons to do not publish.
A profile in Linkedin, myspace or any other does not confirm any genuine, because missing approval. Any profile there is self b- issued
it´s not important here who someone is, but very important what´s the aim of this person and this will be shown through his comments here.
The contributers here are qualified to diversifate simple on the system and informations inside these comments to reply.
Nobody here values a “once valid for ever status”.
All of us is scrutining each statement independent as a new one, limited on the content and not on the author.

this leads into a worst discussion and at least, it changes nothing on the rules of ethics and commitment of this blog.
An IP address shows the actual location but as anybody knows, you can redirect this to show any place on the world.
This blog work with analysis of the published statements. If the sender calls himself Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse does not change anything on this fact.
I don´t know who of you is right or not, but to be serious, I am no dealer, no broker or whateverelse than simple and only an professional investigatior against economic crime. Anybody can hire me, but nobody – until today – can abuse me as his tool to support fraud.
Anil will meet Anup next week in his office and can report us about his ideas, but even Anil will not trust only his eyes.
THIS COMMUNITY IS HIS BACKOFFICE!!, as well as it is mine, in case I am not sure about something. Nobody is perfect and if I am not sure, I shit on my proudness and will ask for help, because I know, I can get here and nowhere else as this is a non-commercial blog.
Therefore, I am quiet sure, that whatever he will see, he will not forget to ask the professionals in this group for an objective opinion and diversification of the risk which may will be in a possible business.
Your private war leads to nothing.
Selling AU in this economical fears with own financial capabilities and as a member of mining industry may shows a limit on economic education, business instinct – as discounted AU is very rare, only born from artisan miners without an idea about the world market, which I do not know even one since the last twenty years – what leads to a bit suspecious feeling as a camouflage identity will do as well, but for both may the acteur has good reason which we do not know and propably will never get undoubt evidence.
We do not need this, simple because it out of the content of this blog.
Whoever offer whatever must pass contributers system check and this result – independent from the author – will provide a clear picture about the author and his motive, whatever his name is.
Since I am here, we are praying to forget names and scope rthe systems. Same is valid here. If a real person/ company makes an offer not acceptable, will occur in the same result as a fake ID will do.

This blog was meant to educate and inform potential gold buyers, so as to prevent them from falling prey to gold scammers all over the world but l have come to noticed that the blog has been hijacked by gold scammers and their cronies. I have read through and l can see scammers taking over the blog and thats why l want to entreat the admin to scrutinice all post before publishing it on their esteemed blog, post like that of Phil and conspirators.Readers should draw the line between Phil and Randy Bryant and see that they are just here to conspire and fool people, but not wise people like us. Randy came with the notion that he is a contribution but he is a conspirator to Phil, Phil said he wants to sell to Randy and Randy will eventually come to this blog to tell us that yes, he actually bought gold through Phil, making us all believe that Phil is real and thereby buy our trust and the trust of all potential buyers that may come to the blog,readers can you see the conspiracy between Phil and Bryant.

I want the admin to delete the post of Randy Bryant and Phil from this blog and never, l repeat never accept any post from this two people, a lot of us are wise but some people are not and they may fall for these conspirators and all these will give a bad name to this very educative and informative blog. I wish that the admin will reason with me and delete the post of all scammers here
Thanks admin
Frank Daves

You suggestion has been kindly noted. We approved certain comments in order to observe the scammers new method and to eventually confirm that those people playing here were just scammers using a different technique by using various email addresses and names here to win some confidence. All the comments by those scammers have been deleted and now we can get back to our real vision of the postings which would open the eyes of the ignorant people in order to avoid getting cheated.

Do not open unsolicitated emails that come into your junk or scam folders.

Do not fall prey for emails that come from strangers offering you Gold/ Diamond / Lottery / Funds transfers.

There is no cheap Gold or Diamonds in Africa. Everything is controlled by Mafia,. Government or legal organisations.

Never ever send your personal details to the strangers and never even reply them with any foul language as you will only be followed by loads of junk email of that sort.

The scammers will send you emails and especially in money transfers or funds transfers use some website link or news article to make you believe that the money transferer is authenticate.

The Gold / Diamond scammers will also use some website links from social networking sites or company websites which can be prepared on webs.com or sometimes even their websites will not open once you click the links

Under any circumstance do not travel to such countries in greed of buying some cheap gold as you will be stolen even of your underpants and you shall not have money even to travel back to the airport and all your identity documents will be stolen.

There is no coca cola, pepsi, google, yahoo, hotmail, microsoft lottery so dont waste your time just delete such emails and ignore such sms.

If you have mines in Africa , India or Russia its pretty sure that your respective government has made all provisions to buy that commodity from you or have your own clients as gold and diamond is most sort after commodity. Therefore the mine owner will not send such lousy emails to strangers around the world.

They will say that some village chief or some local mine owners have cheap gold or diamonds….sorry its fake..There is no village chief or local mine owner going around the internet trying to sell cheap gold when he can sell that same gold at market rates to the government controlling body for mines and minerals in their country .

Lately I have been receiving many emails from scammers claiming to be from India trying to sell gold, diamond, iron ore,copper scrap, jet fuel, coal, urea, cotton bales, semi precious stones etc. Please for Gods sake dont even fall for this, perhaps these guys are sending emails from Africa or its also possible that since many blacks have traveled to India and are sending such emails from there. In India commodity is well controlled by the Indian government and the Indian customs is very strong in delaing with such commodity its not like Africa. In India you have lots of restriction and one cannot just export such commodities outside India as India itself is a buyer of such items.
Therefore, forget about dealing with any Indian company. They might be just some black scammer.

Lastly after reading by comment I request scammers not send me any emails trying to sell any commodity. I am least interested in it. I saw this blog is very useful and thought of sharing my views on such scams.

This is interesting blog. I have received some emails from unknown senders about gold dust and gold dore bars. Its strange that how they know that I want gold. I can only request the readers that there is no cheap gold and do not ever respond to such emails. I look forward to getting more from this blog.

I have received an offer from GLOBAL TRUST & FINANCIAL CO LTD., no 17 harbor road, Accra , Ghana , West Africa –
The chief executive is Kojo Boateng and the offer for 250 kgs at -12% LME. as per the FCO.
The 2nd document is from Republic of Ghana , Judicial Service P O Box 119, Accra Ghana.signed by second deputy judicial secretary.
The 3rd document is Declaration act notory public.

I want to know if this company is real or fraud and I would want to send these documents to the blog owners to publish so that i can get correct information regarding same.

I received also an offer from Global Trust & Financial, with the same address for 50 + 500 kg/ monthly gold shipment; the signee is not Boateng, but Abraham Foley.
Any information to know if this company is real?

They also sent pics of smelting gold dorey bars and various doc/ registration; impossible to say they are real documents of course!

They propose me to come to Ghana, do an exchange of 7% money against 7% worth of gold that would have just been assayed; the remaining balance 93% would be shipped to the US and then paid upon final assay in the US; it sounds pretty risk free if we keep a tight eye on the 7% gold after it has been assayed and that we ship it with our own shipper.
They mention a shipper that seems serious called Intragol Group 15 Oxyford street, Accra Ghana. but not sure if they are serious either in real??
What do you think?

500 kg per month! That alone will tell you. For 500 kg, about 100 village miners would have to dig two months.
Once they have your 7% of money (on 50 kg that would be to the tune of 150.000 US$) they will show you gold which you will never receive. It will be switched to worthless brass bars.
Besides: How would you expect to get 3 kg of gold through customs? You are not licensed to export. If it is gold, it will be seized and you will be deported (if you are lucky and don’t end up in anise GHana prison.
Other scenario (most likely after switching) you will be robbed or stopped by phony police. They will even bring you to a phony prison and will only release you once you or somebody else has paid (hefty) ransom.

This blog has advised over and over again, only to buy through PMMC and make NO payments beforehand. Otherwise you will loose your money and potentially your life.

Purchases and export of gold in Ghana are handled by Precious Mineral Marketing Corporation (PMMC). Mostly gold from Ghana is shipped in the form of bar.buy ghana gold bar coins

Things you need to look into before buying the gold from Ghana.

Contact a licensed Gold seller in Ghana and confirm it with PMMC to check whether the transaction is legitimate.

Get the Gold Export Agreement form from PMMC, which is required to be filled by both the supplier and the overseas buyer. Return the form to PMMC for an approval.

Make sure the supplier delivers the shipment of Gold on time, which shall reach PMMC, located in Accra for the assessment on the day it’s suppose to be exported. Make sure if it is unsmelted gold then the shipment shall arrive to PMMC at least a day before.

After the assessment, gold is packed into the special wooden or metal boxes by the PMMC officials in the presence of Ghana custom officials. Once packed, PMMC transport the secured gold to Kotoka International Airport for the delivery of the courier through the airlines.

You can receive your gold at the specified location. The documents accompanying the exported gold from Ghana do also include an Invoice by PMMC, Ghana Custom Export and the Bank of Ghana documents.
Also do not forget to find most importantly the document containing the gold purity, quantity and its value both in US Dollars and Ghanaian Cedi and the airway bill.

It is being advised that you should not pay cash to the supplier; rather through a bank transfer to PMMC’s account with Bank of Ghana this will help you keeping safe from the frauds.

Dear Henning and all other writers-I would like to thank you for the informative info. because I am also a broker and for past 2 yrs I find they are ALL bogus, I have also made my theories work as some of you did above.NEVER pay ANYTHING up front, NO Fin.Instruments ,any or most emails emanating from gmail.com,yahoo.com are ALL Bogus. I am also looking for REAL sellers as I have a refinery and a private person for purchase. I have a seller but only through another mandate I know so it is not 100%, but their deal is real as they do not ask for up front payments of Fin. Instruments, however a DD would be good. My one private buyer unfortunately did not listen to me and got burned-I feel terrible,but it is out of my hands unfortunately. I enjoy learning from this site and need more input as I also have sellers of Rough Stones and need some good direction.
Sincerely
Nick

@Jesse,
yes, they can, because simple the option that they can contact you makes you part of the trainee programm for newcomers in the scam business.
To learn the right reply on the right time and psychological timing of pronouncing they need people they can talk to until they are perfect.
You will listen to them all the time again and again, because you are interested in the product and the huge discount, what makes you a perfect victim or if you are a broker without own funds a perfect tool for education of the new generation of fraudsters

Hi i have been corresponding with individual proclaiming to be military officer in the US Army, supposebly has aquired gold bars during military raid needs to ship them to me as is in active duty. Is this a possible scam, is not asking for any money as of yet? Thanks

Please note that this is a very common nature of tactic scammers use. They are either military officers or some tribal chief or village chief or some officer at bank. A US military officer having acquired gold, seems to me like the screenplay from George Clooney movie “We three Kings”.

However, in real life it is 100% not possible for any US military officer to acquire gold in this manner. Beware, if not now maybe later on he/she will surely ask money or atleast like to take your identity.

Dianne, PLEASE!
If you believe this, I have a bridge for sale, only for you!!
This is probably the oldest scam of all of them. Right now there is an abundance of similar scams of all these poor former Libyan officials who need somebody who can help them to invest there gazillions of US $.
If you knew how the American military works, you would know that this is absolutely impossible.
In time they will ask you for advance money …… be sure of it.

Dear Michael,
Your information regarding exporting gold out from Ghana is false.
1…There are lot of shipping companies in Ghana,that ships gold dust and gold bars out from Ghana without any restrictions from Ghana.I know you are getting this wrong information from PMMC..
First PMMC was the only agency which export gold out from Ghana but now,every organisation can export gold out from Ghana only if you acquire export lincense..Government give every organisation export lincense to export gold out from Ghana only if you qualify.So you are holding old information.
I can give you 2 shippings which export gold dust and gold bars for many sellers in Ghana … go to http://www.sambuckshipping.com and http://www.shiptoanyplaceonline.com

2…The reason why alot of Sellers are runing away from PMMC is that..if you use PMMC as your business plate form and after making your sales.PMMC will give all their records to the government and the government will know the list of companies that sold their gold through PMMC and the government will come to the Seller company and demand 30% from that sales the Seller make…It is like the government have eye on every transaction that goes on at PMMC so government take alot of share from Sellers in PMMC transaction and at the end you the Seller will gain nothing.

So what we only do is that we have our export license to export our gold out from the country but we don’t have the funds available to pay for the export documentation of the gold.So we reduce the price of the gold for the Buyer to enable the Buyer to pay the export documentation cost of the gold on our behalf and one of us will follow the Buyer with the gold to the Buyer destination,our representative will witness the full assay of the gold at the buyer refinery and Buyer make the full payment of the gold within 72 hours after final assay of the gold at the Buyer refinery.

@Michael,
this is simple bullshit.
Govt. takes a their regular tax and that´s it.
PMMC is not the regulator, but testify the quality of the Product.
Exporting dust is prohibited anyway.
Any AU Business will be monitored through the Bank of Ghana, what is the Central Bank with transaction monopoly for any AU business and the Govt.
There is no way to circumvent the export documents and Bank of Ghana certificate.
If this 30% story would be true, they – as regulators – are the source to address the seller to whom? IRS? Mining Ministry? and what they do next? cross check with any refinery?
in general,by law, World Market price is basic for the tax and evaluation.
To avoid this, you must declare, that you ship your own AU. THERFORE, AS WELL AS IN ANY OTHER CASE YOU MUST BE LICENSED TO DEAL WITH AU! Check the comments above for advise about the huge risks, involved in dewaling without license.

If he simple needs to sell, he can do this with the offered discount at any corner to any licensed dealer, as they will then go to PMMC or another refinery ( all of them purchase discounted AU) realize the spread as profit and your seller hzas the funds to “export” without buyer´s funds.
This is a very old scam fashion and I am wondering once more, why nobody study the previous comments, before he publish his question here.

I wish all of the members of thgis blog a scam free and happy new year

I have been silent for a while since I am puzzled to find out, that despite our good efforts to educate potential buyers and provide insight into this crazy business, people still seem to think that they can outwit these guys and become rich quick…
I guess we all have contributed in great abundance (advice for free by the way) and have tried to shed some light on this business …. ONLY to find out that people would still fall for these offers and send money to some stranger in Ghana who claims that he is your friend and will never let you down. The almighty Lord is his witness by the way..

We have a saying in our country: Greed eats Brain..

I guess we have done what we can to make life difficult for these scammers but, if you see their suits, their cars, jewelry (and their girls), you wonder how many people are still out there, financing their lavish lifestyle… despite our good efforts and those of other websites.

Hello,
Thank you for valuable guidance as regards to the subject of scam. What I can add is that Prince Nana Enim who operates in Ghana and Nigeria, tel. no 233-54-7556396 is 100% scammer. Apart from this, I conduct talks with the seller from Congo (not met via internet), but I wonder what is the reliable source to confirm his credibility. I know he has a real office, but price is very attractive. I appreciate all your heplful comments in this matter. Anyway, I highly appreciate your recommendation of real suppliers. I kindly thank you for your attention.

Thanks to everyone on this board. What’s alarming is the sheer number of people chasing this stuff. Has anyone on this site physically gone overseas to see what the reality is in Ghana? I know that we’re relying on the analysis of a few individuals here, but is it even worth an exploratory trip?

The contributors are not siting ducks here. They have been to Ghana and several other west African countries. One of the person whom we had recommended not to proceed with a transaction with CONCORD EXPORTERS , Ghana and now he has lost money and since last four months not returned back to Europe. His family nor his company in Czech Rep has no information about him whatsoever. I hope the contributors have made over and enough efforts to cover this trade merits and de-merits at length as possible. Therefore, I hope I have replied your doubt.

I didn’t insinuate anyone was a sitting duck. There’s an abundance of gold exporters in Ghana that are offering legitimate deals through the PMMC. There are also various exploration based mining opportunities based out of there as well. I was merely asking where the opinions were coming from. Complaint boards have a habit of being all gloom and doom. I don’t disagree that there is a significant amount of risk in deals that promise 30% off spot price of gold and everyone should follow the steps recommended on here. What would be great is to have a Ghanian consultant that has offices on the ground, but is an American.

Pls don’t trust anyone except your own people in trying to make deals-I have a mate who went to Tanzania as there was an American(white) guy closing the deal on behalf of one of the so called(Generals) from the Congo! He got scammed of a lot of money-so pls don’t trust anyone but your own people going there!

yes Sir, my partner is flying there every other week and he usually comes back with 1 – 5 kilos. Depending on how much he can get. However, he has lived in NIgeria for several years and has contact to local people in Ghana. He buys the stuff 100 gram (not kilos) at a time in the villages and he is always witnessing those poor suckers that fly to Ghana hoping to find their own quick rich scheme.
There are thousands of highly organized scammers waiting for these guys (and gals, believe it or not). They have everything they need to make you believe that your on your way to eternal richness.. you can be as smart as you want… they will scam you and please be aware of the fact you are a (white) foreigner in their turf. You think you can win?

Hi There, is this site still going? I have found very useful information here and had a few questions for you hardned/knowlegable folk re the ‘gold business” don’t want to waste time if its not being used .cheers.

Admin, I have been contacted through a trusted friend of many years that his colleague is trying to place 400k of 93% gold bars from the congo, sat in a refinery in Dubai… I know Dubai very well, and said I would take a look as their are buyers there only to willing to take the product and smelt it, assay it and pay on pure product… If we were to take 1 kilo at a time, drill it assay it and then smelt is, then pay for what is left after the procedure, how can anyone get ripped off.. Looking hard at possible games, but this board will know better than me??? Any advise would be gladly received

I am so glad I came across this blog. Thank you for all the valuable advise. I have been doing research for a while now debating if I want to become a new gold buyer. I know the focus of this has been on African transactions, however has anybody ever done business in Suriname? I have been offered 1 kg Dore bars at 7% below London Fixed. Seller proposes to have the gold placed in a safety deposit box then the key is released to me. Of course I will have to travel to Suriname to complete the transaction. However, my biggest concern is does this sound legit at all? Secondly, what do I do next whith this gold that is in my Suriname Safety Deposit box…I still need to get it out of the country.

However, even if the deal does sound legit I am tring to justify why I want to purchase the gold. Regardless of the Origins (Africa or Suriname) with such a small discount, if you do not plan on actually using the gold what is the point? Is there any real money to be made buying gold if you want to try to resell it for a profit. If there are any successful buyers on here I would love to hear your reasons for being in the business. Is there any money to be made?

I do not have “gold fever” and am not so desperate that I would fall for any 30% discount scams. I am willing to travel and network and acquire relationships to become successful, however is it really worth it?

Hi
I was approach by a Mining Company called Sierra Baomao Mining LTD in Freetown, they offer a Mining Project, they send us some Geological Maps, we have investigated the Maps, and it seems fine, but somehow I am skeptic, I ask them if they have gold to sell, and their response was, they don’t have gold.

I read the comments which shows and recommends that the transaction must be through PMMC. I wonder if it is also safe if deal via AA Minerals? Know that both seller and buyer are licensed in PMMC. This makes sense both are legal and real for the transaction. But if at AA Minerals, the buyer just simply to pay US$500 to set up an account. Is it also reliable? Anyone can answer me if this is also a right place of transaction platform? Seller is not needed to license and qualify, how can I prove them they are genuine?

I heard the reader here that, through AA Minerals, the procedure is much simple than PMMC. Is it correct? Moreover, after the assay report, I plan to sell it to AA Minerals. Is it also possible?

Attention.
Company Ankomah and son. Representative Eric Ankomah is a crook and a cheat. Destination Ghana. Mousa Kabore posing as company director of marketing of Kalsac Sa, working with a bunch of crooks. Destination Burkina Faso. I experienced both firsthand. They are big cheaters.

Because the increasing fraudulent in the AU, diamond and other high yield businesses, a new OECD guidance for supply chains is in power of law.
Contact the warrior to receive a copy. i will send them together with additional studies to him and Lothar.

If you follow them strictly inn additon with the previous already published fraud preventive package, you are mostly complete protected

Hi, how do I know that I am dealing with scammers? They are from Mali and we have sign fco with them and the mandate is from India. They want us to send a 3000usd for the smelting process before sending the gold over to us~ is there anything we can do?
They claim they are from bougouni community gold. Their company is call BCG.

Wow!! I have just spent 2 hours reading all the fantastic information on this blog. I was looking for some information on Tetremman Company and one Patrick Kufour, which I finally found one mention about a Tony Wilson in the latter posts, related to the said company. Their other company name is C & E Mining.

This guy Patrick did not contact me via email but was introduced via a mutual friend who knew I was looking for real gold to purchase in Ghana. Anyway, he claims to have 100kg of alluvial gold, (55kg bars & 45kg powder) he is asking 39k per kilo negotiable. His story is that they lost a court case levied against them by the family who owns the land on which they had their mining operation. So now they have been told to get off the land and remove all machinery by the judge. This is meant to be the last of the gold they posess which they want to release, pay off all the people who had invested money into the operation and move on. He has said I can come to Ghana, they will bring the gold to Accra, I can test and drill through all 55 bars if required then take to have assayed. He has not asked for any money up front and said he is willing to have me fully satisfied before I make payment. He said depending on the price agreed he can organise shipping or I can do it myself.

He said if we use their shippers I would pay 50%, have a rep accompany the gold to final destination then balance on receipt of final assay at destination. I told him I would like to take 25kgs to PMMC for assaying and shipment. Then I would like to pay Pmmc and make him a beneficiary. He said he wanted the money paid direct to his account as Pmmc take a long time to release funds to the local Sellers. He said that if they assay the gold and keep it he would like to be paid in full right away. He also stated that PMMC can only ship about 5kg at a time? Is this true?

I am about to ask him fornall his company credentials.
Any feedback anyone? Is this guy a scammer?

We have come across Tetremman and Patrik Kufour many times through several sources and found out that they are part of a larger scam. The names of the persons and company’s can change very often, therefore, it is difficult to point finger to one person and feel safe with the another. You need to ask your mutual friend how did he get the contact of Patrik. The story of owning 100kgs of gold and all the court cases, etc etc is 100% what scammers use and therefore I would not suggest that you should buy any of the stories. Go directly to PMMC and get a deal done or to AA Minerals.

PMMC can ship any quantity at time, as only after legal clearings they will allow gold to get shipped.
We and many other contributors have mentioned the mechanics of the gold dealings. Please refer earlier messages and comments on top, and still you do not find any information then please feel free to contact me.

Here is another gold scammer. Bouba Siddibe of Metalpac SARL in Bamako, Mali.
The scam is to ask for an upfront payment for a “government bond”, then followed up with immediate request for “transit or clearance fees” with no evidence of shipment whatsoever

I’VE DEALT WITH THE CRIMINALS AT METAL PAC, HOWEVER, THEY ARE PROTECTED BY THEIR BANK, ECOBANK WHO IS COMPLICIT IN THEIR CRIME! FURTHER THEY HAVE OVERSEAS PARTNERS IN BELGIUM TO HELP FLEECE UNWARY PERSONS. I’VE REPORTED THIS TO INTERPOL HAS WELL BUT HONESTLY VERY FEW IF ANY PEOPLE CHARGED WITH UPHOLDING THE LAW GIVE A DAMN ABOUT STOPPING THIS INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING. AND I’VE YET TO MEET A LAWYER WITH THE BALLS TO GO AFTER THE FACILITATING THE MONEY LAUNDERING.

it´s not necessary to check the mailaddresses which all are freemailing adresses or personal names.
Simple check, if the system matches with the preventive procedures from above or ask the admin for our preventive package.
if not, it´s a scam. Simple but true

the simplest way is to ask the consulate or embassy of guinea in your country if they act as your escrow and learn from the reply.
Also offer this genuine “Sir” to accept the Govt. as receipient and you will get the same answer: Sorry, not acceptable/ possible

At least, may it makes sense, that you travel without notice as a tourist and visit the ministries on place by yourself.

Our corporation is going to buy gold mining in Guinea, however, in the process occurred questions.
Could you please, can you answer to following question.

1. Which kind of licence (licences) is (are) required not only to transport gold dust from mining within Country, but also abroad?
2. Approximate cost of that licence (licences)
3. Which Ministry are responsible to that licence (licences)
4. Price of gold dust in your receiving center?

this blog is no reasearch office.
I believe you must do this by yourself!
The easiest way is to ask your countiry´s embassy, consulate or the chamber of Commerce in Guniea – which Guinea?
– And in case you´ll get the Au, are you sure to be able to get it out?

to avoid any misunderstanding. it is your job to do the basics and our voluntary engagement through FREE ADVISE, TO FURNISH YOU WITH THE NECESSARYTOOLS.
If you decide that – for whatever reason – you do not need to contact your country´s authorities, it´s up to you.
Most of your´s and other questions posted here are already answered once or multiple times..
Most of newcomers simple are too lazy to study the reports and await prompt support to avoid own engagement without own efforts.

Need suggestions. Hi sir. I m going tanzania (manza) next week to buy gold and me and my partner want to open a company there and in dubai to bring gold from there. Could you suggest me how can I bring gold from there throughout by custom legally. Thanks. Waiting for ur kind reply.

This is not a B2B blog or a platform. We do not research for sourcing out of suppliers and neither do we recommend any suppliers to anyone.
The information for doing business in Tanzania , Ghana or any other country can be found with your government department, Chamber of Commerce or the designated government departments of the country you want to do business.
This blog and some of our contributors here are only preventing fraud or warning people around the world against the gold and diamond business frauds and scams.

MAy you did not realize what we are trying to do here?
This is NO B-B platform.
Any buyer here will keep his sources for himself.
The only way to get more or less serious infos is to leave your desk, take a plane and visit the ministries of the countries to get a list of the actual licensed artisan miners.
Next will be to accept, that they do not offer a huge discount as well as they are not looking for a “simple” buyer. Arriving without JV option is wasted time.
They look for JV partners and offer the access to the product. That´s the only way to get AU in quantities. Anything else is bying a few gram here and a few gram there, but never ever kilos.
Any offer simple for puchasing – without exception – is a scam.
They can sell this at any corner without you. Their problem is limited on the AU self, because if they sell this local, the AU is gone and they must achieve a new consignment for a new business.
On the usual scam system, ( your road to prediction) they can use the same AU hundreds of time.

He is a german native and as well previously an Eastern Germany politican.
it´s approved, that he also was been a spy and inofficial informer, we call them “IM” for the Stasi ( Secret Service of DDR)
Nobody, except old friends same character will protect him. If you have reliable records, send them to me to inter383@gmail.com accompanied with your and the victims contact details.
I am sure, that I can effort investigations through the german press.
At least the CID in Accra is waiting for foreign sheaters. You shall forget local police and talk directly to them.
CID HEADQUARTERS ACCRA.
Telephone: 0302-768846
Fax: 0302-761272
Fax: 0302-761728
(i) DCOP/Mr. Prosper K. Agblor – Director-General/CID
(ii) ACP/Mr. Alex Amponsah-Asiamah – Dir/Admin/CID
(iv) ACP/Mr Redeemer Vincent Dedjoe – Director-Operations/CID
(v) ACP/Mr. I.J.T.O Terkpetey – Central Crime Research and
Operation unit (CCROU)

After they charged us $660 in freight for 3kg and $5600 in “taxes, insurance and all paperwork included”, the box arrived in Dubai. Then we got an email saying that we needed 2 more papers (certificate of non-criminal origin and another one)….$6300 more! At this point we called Dubai customs and there was no sign of box! We decided to stop there thinking that it was a scam. The sender found another shipping co

http://www.glscl.com (SCAM)
They quoted us a better price and we agreed to only send 1kg. $4000. We sent half to the shipper and the sender was supposed to send the other half.
Well, we lost our half, the shipper doesnt want to refund our money and the sender keeps asking us to send more money in order the fulfill the shipment!

I just wanted to let everyone know that Global Logistics, Cole Michael, EquatorialCargo are SCAMS…and I hope that they will show up in the search engines!

@Gregory.
If you didn´t know it better, I am sorry about your loss.
But if you´ve known this blog before than it your own fault!! We pray here uncountable times the basics. One of them is NO!! PRE-PAYMENT! FOR NO REASON!!!, it´s worst to see always, that nobody takes his time to study the previous comments until he understands the contents.
If your Inco terms are CIF, stay on it – means, a credit to the carrier is FOB with third parties control. Take your own carrier on FOB or pay CIF in your destination. If they ask for LC or whatever, Seller first is standard here. Seller provides PB and buyer activates with his LC. Only this direction provides evidence about the finacila indenpendece and capability of the “seller” and so on.
For the future, ask the admin to furnish you with our preventive package.

What’s the word on Cameroon Au sourcing? Any successful experience?
Apparently, the Ministry overseas the transaction by constitutional mandate. As presented:

“I hope you understand that if the buyer is ready and willing to buy then he/she should have no problem paying just approximately $ 3750 USD for 100kg of Gold to a governmental body and a receipt issued out to this effect he/she is not going to be the first or last to pay this fee we cannot surpass the stipulated terms and conditions of the regulating board, if that is not enough it should also be noted that we responsible for all taxes as well as taking the risk to proceed with shipment to the buyer destination airport without any payment guarantee because we are cover by the board of Directors of the Ministry of Industry Mines and Technological Development. Its is also very important the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Technological Development is acting as a trusty party as with the approved contract it take just 2 days for the Embassy to issue out VISA for our representatives.

@Louis
For what somebody shall pay you this aprox. 3750USD? if you offer CIF?
sell 100 gr and fit the INCOTERM CIF.
Who shall believe, that you own 100kg , worth 5,2 mn USD right know, but are not able to pay this peanuts?
The Govt. as a trustee for your visa is not the same as the Govt. as your trustee for the consignment.
It´s simple bullshit if a seller, wherever on this earth, need to makes gifts to “buyers” through discount, risk and paperwork for export if he can sell for same rate around the corner.
WHY shall somebody give a seller a credit to pay the carrier, if the seller simple can sell less quantity and pay by himself? result through the announced “reimbursemend after payment at final destination” will be the same.
nobody in this group will eat this delicious snack.

@ Wieslaw. Simple check the address. It´s a lawfirm which – among others – act as an US corporation Service http://www.fleissnerlaw.com/
If you like, furnish us here – through the admin – with the draft contract and we will show you, what to do.

If you are buying Gold from Burkino Faso CIP (to dubai) with a letter of credit payable only on an assay report conducted at the duabi refinery. no fees upfront. 100kg shipments (security travels on the plane with the gold). the title to the gold and responsibility remains with the seller until dubai.

where in this process are you likely to be scammed? The sellers wont get a cent if the gold is not assayed at the end destination. is this a wise transaction? currently it seems too good to be true.

what is a realistic price/kg to be paying? is it possible to have legitimate deals in the 30-40k/kg space? or is this not realistic and they are all scammers?

Do any of these 1-200kg transactions occur successfully on a regular basis at significant discounts?

I guess you are a newcomer here.
tI can assure you, that there is no one here, who can be duped, if he follow our long term established protective standard and updates which are available through the admin:
Anil Machado
and
Anil Machado

on demand.
In any case, the basics are: Seller first, Commodity first and NO PRE-PAYMENT FOR NO WHATSOEVER REASON.

Sean can you please tell me more about Kolie Duonah Bollivogui. Did he scam you because I know him personally….When was that and how much did you lose to him? I would appreciate it if you can tell me…..

Hi Anil,i have been duped several times as many others.please do guide me with real sources of gold dory suppliers that will not dupe my money any further.i am,in situation that is very upset and answerable to a few of my partners.please help and i highly appreciate your kind guidance and thank you vert much for your attention.

Another scammer is Darkwa Nana from Victory mining..He is a terrible scammer from Ghana posing as a God fearing man. He works with a syndicate from the US AND works with a David Cheifer from the US……David will recommend him and you money will disappear..

On january 11,2011 you have given a very informative write up on export procedures of gold from Ghana.

Could you please give a detailed write up on the buying & export procedures, rules & regulations to follow for diamonds from Guinea-Conakry. the license fees, best way to transport diamonds from Conakry to export destination,etc

Has anyone ever gone into one of these countries after being stolen from and threatened (or hurt) the people doing the thievery? I am sure that most people are like me and gave up on their lost funds, but maybe someone has done something about it. Very curious…

@ Ajay
Such a list does not exist. No Buyer will share his sources. This is no B2B platform! We try to prevent. My email inter383@gmail.com as well as the rejection of any request for Seller is several times into this blog

We urgently need real and genuine gold sellers please, we have a bank instrument that is expiring tonight and we stand to loose big money please help me admin, my email is blukay8@gmail.com. Please help

Frank Boateng ( of course a fake name ) but I approved his comment , just to show the readers the example of another way scammers work……Bank instrument expiring tonight ………??????? are you joking ??????
Beware of such person and his methods used to cheat people.

@Frank Boateng
The truth sometimes taste bitter, but scams are not limited only on Africans.
I know a lot of honorable Africans as well as a lot a fraudsters.
Each indivual can decide about his way by himself.
Most comments are born from experience and therefor the answer of “why” Africa and Ghana? is simple, because there exist a huge fraud industry.

this blog is living from collected experience, voluntary advise and very often in use as backoffice. If the warrior is busy and you are facing some problems, publish them here and some member will give you advise as well on time.
“The western world” explored the watch, but the “Africans” owns the time.
If they need you as the client, they can wait. Do not follow pressure. Never!
In any case, ask yourself what is your individual gain for them, what furnish you with this big advantage, that all the other thousands of buyers in the streets have no chance to get the deal.

I have a question regarding GGDO procedures in Sierra Leone. How do I go about sending money for taxes to the GGDO and not through the supposed gold seller who is asking me to pay the fee directly to him upfront. I am weary of doing so and would prefer to pay the GGDO in order to reassure myself of the validity of this transaction.

I received Offer from “GRIGMS” of Guinea & Cote de’ ivory. Is this Company real? Also let me know the status of “Kansingiri Mines” of Guinea. Both of them are asking me to come to their country for purchase of Gold. The GRIGMS also has a website and the director is calling me from the Number which is displayed in the website itself.

Did they offer CIF? – Yes they did, otherwise seller´s rep will not escort to refinery. Did you recognize, that they ask you for upfront payment?
This is no CIF!!
GRIGMS are working with typically scammer terms

2. Once the contract is signed in Seller’s office, on the same day, the Seller will arrange for the contract quantity to be brought to the office for the customer to analyze and/or take control. After this, the gold will then be taken to the Customs office for documentations and to prepare for shipment. Seller will take care of all documentation requirements.

3. The Buyer or buyers agent will be present during the documentation procedure for the gold as there are some documents that need to be signed by both parties. All taxes from seller’s origin to the buyer’s destination are to be borne by the Buyer.

10 days time period for payments after assay report? Who pays their hotel? Do they need an invitation to enter your country? You don´t know? Why not? Because they may have no intention to leave there country?
At least they are listed on fraudwatchers.orghttp://speaker2.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=1787313&item=508

But in any case, the terms grant you only, that, in the best case you lose only all your funds. In worst case, they simply capture you and ask for bailout.

Ask the Adimin for our preventive package and use the “5 kg form”,
If I would be you, I would not meet them, except they feed on their on a trial shipment first.

hi pavan where are you from due you buy rough diamonds & gold.
all guinea gold & rough diamonds so called sales are put up by fraudsters & scamsters.
so beware.
I have been in guinea & i know exactly how the system works.
frankly serious sellers who have the material need not advertise on line.
business takes place only through known & reliable parties.
people claiming to have 1000’s & millions of carats & kgs & tons of gold are nothing but scamsters.
They would have never even seen or handled a rough diamond or gold in their life’s

I am Dealing with a company called West End Mining Group, (Joshua Caesar) A few red flags have made me a bit suspicious. If you have any further info that could help email me on damian@tomballantynediamonds.com

how did they contact you? through www.! without your name – dear Sir… – and with a huge offer, right?
Names and Companies are the wrong way to verify, because they are changing very often during a scam period and as well very often ID theft are using real companies names.
More and only important is, that the system to beg you remains always the same.
Simple check the terms.
Do they ask for any pre-payment?
Do they are working through a “financier” ( what indicates third party receive your funds and you can say goodbye to your money ) Do they offer CIF, but ask you to pre-finance royalty (99% of scams)
Check, if they are listed with mining ministry. ( Iam sure they are not)
At least, if they offer CIF, ask for a previous IMPORT – NOT EXPORT – documentation from a previous business with anonymized customer name.
I am sure, you´ll get no reply or they try to convince you, that you´ll be convinced after arrival in their “mine”.

Don´t travel!Don´t issue brokerpapers as e.g. LOI and don´t furnish them with personal details. Ask them to send you their draft P&S contract and feel free forward it to me to verify your risk. But in anycase check the draft for the basics as there are SELLER FIRST; COMMODITY FIRST AND
!!!!!!!!!NO PRE-PAYMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, your enquiry shows, that you are carefull and may not believe in glimmer boxes. Therefor, I will furnish you tommorrow with our preventive package to be prepared for now and for the future. During the time you follow the advise, you are mostly protected.

Dear Henning,
thanks for that. No they did not get in touch with me, I have been in the industry for a number of years and was intro’d to them through a colleague who put me in touch with their Mandate a Mr George Lu. All they are asking is Mt799 POF after the SPA is signed. they have provided Proof of Past performance etc only after i pointed out that the SKR was not worht the paper it is printed on. I must say Joshua has been extremely professional and with one deal as an example we are 3 months in and spa is now signed AND THE mt799 about to be sent. Still at this stage and at no stage up unti now have they asked for any form of upfront fees or payments for anything. This is a weird one. I just feel a tad uneasy.

I would like to know have anyone done business with Spartacus Co-SARL from Bamako, Mali?
They are flying a representative in with a few uncut stones, in which I’m going to purchase. All their credentials are in order by the research that I did and the owner of the company will be flying also. I did a back ground check on him and everything is good. My investigators went as far as getting a copy of his passport, home address, and his visa. It took us two months to get the deal in order and tomorrow we will finalizing the contracts.
He haven’t asked for any monies up front for gold nor gems. Only that I purchase the goods when he brings them to me. I have a gemologist on hand that is going to check the authentic quality of the gems.

Just came back from Sierra Leone tyring to find a real seller and transport gold into the US. Spent over a week with no success but learned a lot especially how the banking system works there. To make a long story short from my learnings here’s what I think is the only way you can do a successful transaction.

Get recommendations from a reputable bank on local businessmen who are reputable.
Make contact with with these businessmen and ask for information such as licenses and the ability to export gold. Do a background check.
Never make any upfront payment and travel to SL to inspect the product.
On the day you are to leave or as close as possible, meet at the Gold and Diamond Office to have the gold assayed and sealed. Pay all fees to export the gold and take possession.
If you don’t feel safe with the gold hire secrurity until you leave for the airport.
Alternative is to take the sealed box and have it shipped directly to the US.
Pay for the gold after assay is completed at the US refinery.

Do you or your fellow posters see any holes in this procedure?

If any of your posters have done a transaction successfully in Sierra Leone, please let me know how they did it. Real sellers are very precious and once you find one they are literally worth their wait in gold.

@ Linda
It´s a scam.
Export of dust is prohibited. In any case, ask your “seller” for import docs and you´ll probably get the answer: Deliverred through diplomats….”
This product will be offered for inspection in a security warehouse. You´ll be allowed to take a sample of real AU. They will ask you to pay the carrier. That´s the target. Against your cash, you´ll get the key of the box, but it´s already exchanged or they have a second key and will change against shit, before they change into the neighbour box and await the next fool. Discuss this issue with the anti fraud squad of the local police, enter into this deal under supervision of the police and take them out of the market or simple stay away from this deal. If you do not follow this advise, do not enter into the “business” without a goodbye party for your funds

10 years ago I was seriously engaged in the sale of gold. With this activity I finished, when I went to do the bank manager. I have to acknowledge that these warnings are correct. On the Internetare companies that work with gold and diamonds, but if anyone gets mail with gold dust and diamonds – it is 100% scam. Have you ever wondered why you get this offer just you? Why exporter of gold and diamonds just need you? What makes you so important for exporters of gold and diamonds? Nothing. But yes. You are all interesting just for your money. Fraudsters use tricks to amateurs in this field and everyone thinks that it is possible to simply get rich. The opposite is true. So thank you for the administrator of this blog. It’s really great!!

Hi Lothar how is the new group in uk performing for you. Do you have any advise with regards sourcing sellers in Ghana we have had 4 failed attempts sending swift mt799 to financiers. Maybe you could give me some advice and point md in the right direction

Richard, run away, its a scam. These scammers have criminal and rogue european bankers they work with who are able to secure a loan against these financial instruments. Any small scale miner or an individual gold seller who asks for a financial instrument is a scammer! They have been scamming alot of innocent buyers using such rogue bankers to defraud people.

I got the information, that an individium is trying get the comments here from Dave Laca, Mr. Singh and me deleted.
While I have no other contacts with Dave and Mr. Singh,
Mr. or Mrs. Ogbungbada Alapubuenunu accused us, that he got scammed from each of us and we are trying to phish suppliers this way.

” I also got scammed by henning ,Dave laca ,Mr Singh ,please admin these people are here to see if suppliers have discovered their new tricks so delete their messages”

Because I don´t know this person, I was trying to research through google.
For google,the same result as in my records: This person does not exist.

It´s my understanding, that we disturb the activities of this fraudster – in my case, I sent my preventive package uncountable times to any person, asking for help – I guess, that he/they are worry about the wapons, which this non commercial blog provides against scammers and need to delete the tools to achieve more success with their fraud-systems.

This indicates, that our contribution is very valueable and hit the begging scene painfull. These are good news!!

To exclude any doubts, anybody is invited to furnish the admin with any kind of verifiable evidence, which confirms with full documentation ( means: history of contact, e.g. copies of email, skype…signed Sales and Purchase contract with the details about the person, quantity and terms ), that he was been scammed for even one cent,

I have a gold offer from Ghana where the seller wants me to give a Bank Guarantee upfront and he will ship the goods to Middle east. Within 72 hours of receiving the goods, I need to make payment i.e. after I test the gold in a lab. There is no upfront money he has asked for. The price is -4% LMBA. Could this be a scam as well ?

By definition, a SBLC (Stand by Letter of Credit) is a document issued by a bank, guaranteeing payment on behalf of a client. This is used as a “payment of last resort” if the client fails to fulfill a contractual commitment with a third party. In all reality, the SBLC is just a piece of paper with a “value” backed by the good credit of the bank, allowing clients use a “conditional collateral” if needed.

The SBLC (Stand by Letter of Credit) is commonly used when two parties enter into a contract calling for one party to arrange a L/C in favor of the other. With any Stand by Letter of Credit, the agreement is the SBLC will NOT be “drawn” unless the owner defaults on the contract. If the beneficiary was to monetize the SBLC without prior agreement, the owner could dispute the contract in court. The truth is, SBLC’s are rare and used MOSTLY in industrial or bulk commodity sales, serving as a “performance bond” of sorts.

SBLC (Stand by Letter of Credit): A document issued as a guarantee of payment by a bank, on behalf of a client. This is used as “payment of last resort” if the client fails to fulfill a contractual commitment with a third party. In the private placement world, this term is often associated with fraudulent companies that offer bank instrument leasing and/or project funding “opportunities”.

BG (Bank Guarantee): A bank instrument, guaranteeing a certain face value for an investor, while collecting an annual interest before expiring upon maturity.

Whether you are a client, broker, consultant, or even just a beginner, the MT 760 and MT 799 are two terms that are critical to learn inside and out!. Many times, if you speak to brokers who claim to have trade programs, you can tell if their investment is real by asking just one question, “Explain the MT 760 and MT 799, what are the risks and fees?” If you get an answer that sounds similar to the explanation we give below, then you may want to dig a little deeper! If you don’t, recognize that these people are less educated than they claim, and may not be the best option. First things first, let’s explain the definition and application of these terms in the modern day private placement business.

The MT 799 is a swift message used between banks to communicate in written form, and is usually referred to as “pre-advice”. For example, Bank “A” may send a MT 799 to Bank “B” stating: “We confirm “XXX” amount on deposit and are ready to block this amount via MT 760 in favor of account “XXX” at your bank. Please confirm readiness and receipt.” Typically, the MT 799 will be needed directly before the MT 760 is issued, and there may be small fees. Despite what most brokers may claim, the MT 799 is NOT used as collateral,and can NOT be used to enter a private placement program. Now that we know about the MT 799, let’s take a look at it’s cousin, the Swift MT 760.

The MT 760 is a swift message used to block funds in favor of someone other than the owner, collateralizing the asset via this message, while allowing for loans and liens against it. For example, most private placements require the investor to send a MT 760 to the trader’s account, allowing the trader to use this swift as a collateral guarantee for their bank. Again, despite what many brokers may claim, this is NOT everything you need to know about the MT 760. Now that you do know the definitions and applications, let’s cover the key points no one ever brings up about the MT 760: the FEES, and the RISKS…

First and foremost, the fees for blocking a large amount of funds via MT 760 can be more than you would expect. In most cases, your bank will charge 1-2% of the value being blocked for this service. For example, on a 100M bank instrument this can be 1-2M that the owner must come out of their pocket with, unless they have a special relationship with their bank. You may say to yourself, “Wow, that is a lot to spend on fees for something I’m not sure will work”! Well, even more importantly, let’s take a look at the risks if you did move forward.

If you complete the MT 760 and pay the fees, you should observe everything very closely from that point on. Once the MT 760 has hit the account of the trader, the line of credit should become available within 72 hours. At that time, the trader should be able to make their first bank instrument purchase, and give you a DEFINITE TIMELINE for your first profit disbursement. You may say, “Why do I need to watch this process so closely?” Well, here is the part that most brokers don’t tell their clients…

When blocked in someone’s favor, the MT 760 collateralizes assets in the form of a swift guarantee, and by doing so, allows the beneficiary to draw credit against it. This means, if the loan to the “trader” was defaulted on, the bank would seize the collateral and you would be out of your money! Though this scenario is possible, I would consider it rare for two reasons… In today’s world, no bank will loan Millions of dollars to someone they haven’t vetted, no matter what collateral is on hand. Second, the MT 760 is quite rare, and this usually draws attention to the beneficiary of the swift.

In summary, the MT 760 can be safe, or it can blow up in your face.

I hope this helps, usually SBLC’s are bank to bank instruments and not used for small transactions.

I would like to know the procedures for exporting gold from Benin similar to the explanation you gave about exporting from Ghana. What licenses are required if any and who issues it, minimum amount of gold to export if any, export taxes, what kind of paperwork is required. It is at all possible to put a Goverment bond purchased in Benin as collateral for paying export taxes and so forth.

@Ben,
Thanks for your information.
This community does have some basic rules which are not negotiable, for no reason. Until a glimming box eats the brain, nobody here will make the sad experience, which you unfortunately earned.
Seller first, commodity first and no pre-payment!! – whether for tax, shipment or whatsoever -!
We furnish our memebers with a preventivie package. If you and/or your friends need to stay into this danger business, it may seems to be a good idea to ask the admin about.

Ben,
this is no B-B PLATFORM. This was valid before you and will still remain as a B-B platform.
Your way to conduct a business is not acceptable for me. Explicity to abuse this blog to send a mass mail to email addresses of potential buyers which asked me for support is not genuine at all!
Beside the fact, that I do not know the other recipients except from this blog,
I´m not interested to supervise your “super-deals” at all and I would appreciate, if the Admin delete your comment after receipt o0f the copy of your email.

Hi I was fooled some years back and eventually got on the ground and learned the real deal. Since then I have established a company which is based out of the United States and licensed on th ground to buy and export Gold And Diamonds. Sierra Leone Ministry of Mineral Reasources and Guinea Burea National Expertise ( Central Bank) on gold bars tested and insured we can offer discounts starting at 4.5% . We are in place to negotiate and secure up to 100 kilo gold per month. We can even provide refinery security and testing before your purchase. Check us at gizadev. Com it is the only the way. Doing business with us u by pass the 3% custom taxes LEGALLY. And just some advise if it sounds to good it is! And if they have large amounts of product believe me they won’t be selling it cheap! Realistic business with realistic professionals Giza.

I know its off the topic, but still like to ask if someone have any information about any website of Ministry of mines and insutrial development of cameroon. Through the internet i found http://capam.cm/ . I am not sure if its genuine or made by some fraudsters . Actually I am looking for the process of getting mining licence in cameroon. If someone can please guide me regarding this.

i love this information kudos to the government of Ghana i am very happy that you are able to put these informations together for us to be informed thank you,
But before i take my leave sir, may i know the procedures i have to go through and the cost before being a legal buyer please in details for proper understanding and if possible addresses of some legal miners and sellers.thank you.

I am in contact with a woman in Guinea Conakry for the purchase of gold. She said her seller will sell on FOB and that some amount is already with lion gates security and seller will sell if buyer will be responsible for air bill, assaying with central laboratory department with cost about 7% of total invoice.

I just want to know wht the legal process to bring gold from africa country..I have been just cheated now from 2people from cameroon and their names is john haris and assa fred assa.they are from doualla.

I am asked to send 600 Euro to cameroon seller of rough diamonds in exchange for mandate letter to exonerate from taxes. They are asking for my passport, application and money to get this done by Thursday of this week. SO they can move product to the states without taxes from the Ministry of Mines. Is this true or scam?

Hi Dex. I don´t know why, but I received the blog postings from the last month all together only today. Did you already got the package?
If not, feel free to send me your email address to inter383@gmail.com and I´ll furnish you with our prevention

My partner lives in Ghana and has transferd 18 bars into my name. I live in New Zealand and would like to no the cost and procudure to ship them to New Zealand and cost please. They R currently held in a security house. Thankyou

This is one of the very common techniques for scamming. 18 bars into your name, where and how? Did you pay him?
Well he /she is gonna recover some amount for the cost and procedure and thereafter you shall never hear from your partner. Security house!!!! whats this ?????
Admin

No I haven’t payd any money yet but she is wanting $8,207 to clear the debt owd by her mother to Johns security guard compony ph 233579287936 which I haven’t been able to talk to after meny a temps all though I have spoken to lawyer? David Ofori Kwarteng of Michael law & Associates a number of times although I can’t find the company in the buesness directory?. I have been sent Certifacte of claim sighnd and stampd buy him from Ministry of Justice stamp dispatched approved I also have certificate of ownership from Ghana Mineral Board but the phone numbe doesn’t answer, Certifacte of Origin with my name on it and a RE. NO on it, through Republic of Ghana Ministry of Mines but there number doesn’t work a letter of proof from Ghana High Court of Justice 12 Ring Road Centre Accra but there number doesn’t go thrue and last of all a Certifacate of Puricy from Gold Coast Security Company affiliated to Federal Dip. Courier Services Po Box KU 213 Kojo Beedu Winnebago Ghana but again I can’t find them in your yellow pages, but saying that I haven’t found any numbers that seem to work from the yellow pages lol. I have been emailing this lady for 9 months and she was on her way here but had a car accedint and her uncle sent me piks of her in hospital , I did send money to get her out so she could go home to recover before comeing to N Z but now this gold has popt up. I’m just courses about sending $8,000 overthere when apart from talking to her lawyer I can’t verified anything else.. Documents etc. everywhere I go I hit a blank and get the big scam warnings on the pages. I realy appreciate your help in this mater as I need to make the desizion to send the money or not very soon . I’m very green in this eria as I’m shaw you can tell and that’s pretty much all the money I have left after hitting hard times in my life. I look forwerd to you input. Thank you

Sorry I forgot to mention the gold was in storage at Johns security compony as this I guess is like a volt to store valubels and the gold came to us as an inheratince from her father who recently died.

Helo sir I haven’t seen any responce dated February the 18 th. I was hopeing to mite have been able to tell me if people and numbers mentioned R scammers or not? Thank you for your time if you R able to help me

Your partner lives in Ghana? How did you come in contact with this partner?
The telephone number you mentioned are scam numbers and not from Ghana.
John’s Security Company is fake and what business this company has in gold transaction?
You said your partner has transferred 18 gold bars in your name.Where? How?? what documents you have a proof?

Dear Warroior,my hanks for your reply. I was hopeing that you may have knowin some of the names or numbers I supply’s as scammers for shaw. I guess I have that wot if mind set. It will be upsetting if she arrives and I lost my ownly chance in life to end my money problems, but I think you have delt with these typ of people overthere a lot in your time from reading your blogs. Thanks for your input and I guess I just see if she does turn up or not. I think it’s very sad that people can distroy other people’s lives with no looking back but I beleave that at the end our maker will punish them. Maybe he will send them back as blowfly to spend there time here eating garbage and shit like they de service. God bless and live long sir

This is a 100% scam and the reply from admin may is delate only for the reason, that it should be clear already, simple by studing all of the comments here.
If a god exists, he´ll not take care on the scammers for a simple reason of evolution. First time scam, a victim is born, but from the 2nd time, he´s grown to a fool and if a “medicine book” like this blog provides all protection , simple through reading and compare and somebody still enter a 2nd time into the trap, what else than “guilty by own decision” can be the result?

Dear warrior, Documents I have R as follows. Republic of Ghana Ministry of Mines certificate of origin number 1042/MO/GMHQ Beneficiary re-no:Lb52/555774 Ghana Mineral board certificate of ownership reg no LB52/555774 certificate of Puricy Gold Coast Securty Componey RC No 00777692 and letter of proof from Ghana High Court of Justice and certificate of claim from Ministry of Justice Accra district. This is all I have apart from the phone numbers and lawyers name I mentioned before. Johns Security is supposed to be a place where people keep there valubels of all discretionary. Thank you sir

Dear Admin I would like to thank yous very much for your input and can you please delegate our conversations from this site and also iff possible could you please furnish me withe your preventive package . Thankyou said and God bless

i have a pic of 2 men that are posible 1 KWAME OFORI AFRIYIE lawyer the other ? do you know these men is my friend in danger,change of ownership docs airway bill payed warehouse gold kilos to be carried on as hand carry,will it make the USA check pics do u know them if they are laget

@ David,
if you´ve studied the previous comments, you may have recognized, that especially in Ghana, you can sell gold at any corner, last but not least, PMMC and any other refinery purchase by themselves, if it´s real and legal. Beside the idea, that it´s simple a scam and AU does not exist any other option insist, that the “owner” cannot use regular ways. In consequence, may it´s already sold, it´s a warrant or maybe used as colleteral or pre-financed from a third a party as e.g. a large scale miner who paid the exploration or whatsoever. Finally, it´s never legal for sale even if it´s really exist.
In addition, please advise, if this genuine lawyer asked you to pay the warehouse, what´s the next step in a common known old fashion scam sheme.

If you still believe in this story you shall verify with personal commitment in case the result is wrong and will damage your funds. You need a specialized lawyer in Accra, who is able to handle this for you. If you deci8de to hire one, feel free to send small notice to inter383@gmail.com and I will recommend a specialist to you.

I need some help if someone is still monitoring this blog. I met a woman from Ghana online about a year ago. I keep going back and forth believing her and believing she is a scammer. Basically the story is that her father left her and her mother some undocumented gold bars when he died. It is already too late to save some of my money if this is a scam, I really want to believe this person is being genuine and wants to move to the US to be with me. I have paid for some documents, which she has sent copies of, but she now needs money for a certificate to sell the gold. First I sent her some money for a passport, which I have a photo of, then I sent her some money to have a document proving ownership drawn up, which I have a copy of. I was told she brought 1 bar (of 11) to be tested and she sent me a copy of the report. Can you help me verify if the information she sent is real or fake?

**Please note Anil Machado’s blog or Anil Machado does not sell gold,diamonds or any other commodity. Incase if you received any private message or email claiming to be Anil Machado then beware its some scammer trying to use a different method to cheat you.

I think the best way to get rid of these scammers is for every country in africa to establish association of gold and diamond dealers like guinea has established.anybody who lost money in guinea should report to the association.

Thanks for the bog. I am looking to import Gold Dorebars from Ghana to India. It would be a kickstart to my career, so just wanted to ensure about the scope of the business and way to proceed further into it.
Do u have any insights about the gold industry in Ghana, genuine suppliers or any other related data.
Your response will be highly valuable .

Hello. I have little company in Poland. I found here lot of very important advises. Thank You. I would like about test assay and shipping companies. Most of commentators write about PMMC for testing assay. Anybody used some European companies like as SGS? You write that shipping companies from Ghana are dangerous. Could You like write some reliable shipping to Europe ( may be to Poland)? Mr Henning Pawelka wrote, that linkedin is not safe source of suppliers. I corresponding with some person. He seems not scamer, but how to be sure? I appreciate for advise. Best Regards

I need help. My husband is two time cheated! One time in Conakry and one time in Free town. How is possible to buy gold in Guinea? What is real preis for gold? He said is possible to buy gold there and bring in refinery in Europe. And I don’t think that is so easy. Every information is good. Thanks

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